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An Analysis of the 2002 Farm Bill’s Value-Added Producer Grants Program
Boland, Michael A.; Crespi, John M.; Oswald, Dustin - In: Journal of Agribusiness 27 (2009)
Our objective is to identify the determinants for success among USDA’s Value- Added Producer Grants (VAPG) program recipients. Business development has become an important program in departments of agricultural economics. Market share was found to be an important determinant of VAPG...
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Technical Efficiency in Louisiana Sugar Cane Processing
Johnson, Jason L.; Zapata, Hector O.; Heagler, Arthur M. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 13 (1995) 2
Participants in the Louisiana sugar cane industry have provided little information related to the efficiency of sugar processing operations. Using panel data from the population of Louisiana sugar processors, alternative model specifications are estimated using stochastic frontier methods to...
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The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Interdisciplinary Research in Agriculture
Duffy, Patricia A.; Guertal, Elizabeth A.; Muntifering, … - In: Journal of Agribusiness 15 (1997) 2
Increasingly, interdisciplinary research is being touted as a way to solve real-life problems of interest to the taxpayers who support research at public universities. The purpose of this paper is to examine the benefits of interdisciplinary agricultural research involving economists and natural...
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Impact of Marketing Channels on Perceptions of Quality of Life and Profitability for Wisconsin’s Organic Vegetable Farmers
Silva, Erin; Dong, Fengxia; Mitchell, Paul; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916049
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Evaluating habitat-fishery interactions: The case of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation and Blue Crab fishery in the Chesapeake Bay
Mykoniatis, Nikolaos; Ready, Richard - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
This paper investigates habitat-fisheries interaction between two important resources in the Chesapeake Bay: blue crabs and Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV). A habitat can be essential to a species (the species is driven to extinction without it), facultative (more habitat means more of the...
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Cash Wheat Marketing: Strategies for Real People
Brorsen, B. Wade; Anderson, Kim B. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 12 (1994) 2
A new paradigm is needed in extension marketing programs. Attempts to help producers time the market, either through cask sales or futures trading, appear to be of little benefit. Marketing extension programs need to place less emphasis on outlook and futures trading and more emphasis on simple...
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The Effects of Weather and Output Price Risk on the Economic Returns of Backgrounding Feeding Cattle
Harrison, R. Wes - In: Journal of Agribusiness 15 (1997) 2
Stochastic simulation is used to analyze the effects of weather and output price risks on feeder cattle backgrounding systems common to the mid-south region of the United States. The results show that backgrounding systems beginning in the fall and ending from April to late August are associated...
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Analysis of Sales Problems of Small Value-Added Agricultural Processors
Torok, Steven J.; Menkhaus, Dale J.; Columbel, Vincent; … - In: Journal of Agribusiness 08 (1990) 2
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Ex-Post Impacts of Improved Maize Varieties on Poverty in Rural Ethiopia
Zeng, Di; Alwang, Jeffrey; Norton, George; Shiferaw, Bekele - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
A procedure is developed to examine the ex-post impacts of improved maize varieties on poverty in rural Ethiopia. Yield … effects to identify the counterfactual income distribution without improved maize arieties. Poverty impacts are estimated as … the differences in poverty indices computed using observed and counterfactual income distributions. Improved maize …
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