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Demand for Milk Produced With and Without Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin
Misra, Sukant K.; Clem, Kyle D. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 16 (1998) 2
This study focuses on the nature of Texas consumer perception and willingness to purchase milk produced using … sensitivity of consumer demand for conventionally produced milk versus rBST-produced milk. Results show that the price … elasticities of demand for the two types of milk are different, indicating potential to develop niche markets for both rBST …
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Economic Impacts in North Carolina of a Peanut Support Price and Quota Reduction
Martin, Laura L.; Brown, A. Blake - In: Journal of Agribusiness 14 (1996) 1
Excessive government losses and pressure from end users of peanuts have increased the likelihood of a peanut support price and quota reduction in the 1995 farm bill. This study analyzes the economic impacts of reducing the national quota support price on North Carolina farm income and rural...
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Credit Rationing of North Dakota Agribusiness
Gustafson, Cole R.; Anderson, Sara J. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 13 (1995) 2
agribusiness firms operating in the input, output and service sectors. …
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The Purchase-Versus-Lease Decision Revisited After the 1986 Tax Reform Act
D'Souza, Gerard E. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 08 (1990) 2
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The Development of Index Futures Contracts for Fruits and Vegetables
Manfredo, Mark R.; Libbin, James D. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 16 (1998) 1
The fruit and vegetable industry does not have a risk management instrument or a well-structured price discovery system, such as commodity futures contracts, to aid in the marketing and management of its price risk. Since the 1980s, financial futures contracts based on indexes of stocks,...
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Scheduling and Routing Milk from Farm to Processors by a Cooperative
Prasertsri, Peerapon; Kilmer, Richard L. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 22 (2004) 2
A milk marketing cooperative (MMC) was created by Florida dairy farmers to link the primary supply of fluid milk with … the derived demand of processors in the vertical market. For any given milk supply, the revenue or return to farmers per … unit of milk is the average milk price received by the MMC minus the MMC’s transfer cost. An important task for the MMC …
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FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF A NEW FARM POLICY ENVIRONMENT
Vandeveer, Lonnie R.; Henning, Steven A.; Kennedy, Gary A. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 18 (2000) 3
The 1996 Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform (FAIR) Act dramatically affects the decision-making environment of farms by introducing provisions for reducing farm income support payments. These program changes are likely to affect not only farm incomes, but also farm capital asset markets....
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SETTING THE STAGE: AMERICAN AGRICULTURE TODAY AND WHAT WE CAN EXPECT OVER THE NEXT 5 TO 10 YEARS
Womack, Abner W. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 18 (2000) 1
According to estimates made by the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute in March of 1999, there are several macro factors that will significantly impact U.S. and global agriculture over the next decade. Factors leading to near-term price pressure are contrasted with likely...
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LOOKING FOR GOVERNMENT'S ROLE AS AN AGRICULTURAL SAFETY NET
Dorfman, Jeffrey H. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 18 (2000) 1
What makes agriculture especially deserving of an active government safety net? What is different about agricultural production? Are we concerned about a safe and reliable food supply or about farmers' incomes and returns to assets? Those who make farm policy base their arguments on all of these...
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A FARM-LEVEL LOOK AT THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE
Smith, Edward G.; Knutson, Ronald D.; Richardson, James W. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 18 (2000) 1
Relatively low crop prices over the past two years, as well as regional weather adversity, has been the catalyst for the passage of "ad hoc" emergency relief. This paper examines the economic and financial status of 41 representative panel farms over the 1999-2002 period. When forecasting...
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