The discovery of sugarcane smut in one Queensland cane region, in June2006, triggered a clear-cut biosecurity response aimed at containment anderadication. Farm financial analyses helped to set the incentives offered tocanegrowers to gain their cooperation in the eradication effort financed...

This paper is based on the premise that if CARICOM’s agricultural sector in general, and more specifically the export sub-sector, is to thrive in the rapidly changing trade environment there has to be a continuous systematic assessment of market opportunities and competitiveness status. Such...

This paper measures profit efficiency and examines the effect of access to microfinance on theperformance of rice firms in Bangladesh. An extended Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier profit function wasused to assess profit efficiency and profit loss of rice farmers in Bangladesh in a survey data...

Delays in payment adversely affect the contract seed production program for other fieldcrops (OFC) conducted by the Department of Agriculture (DOA) Sri Lanka. This studyfocuses on assessing the financial viability of advancing payments for contract farmerswho produces groundnut (Arachis hypogaea...

Factors affecting the adoption of crop insurance, forward contracting, and spreading sales areanalyzed using multivariate and multinomial probit approaches that account for simultaneousadoption and/or correlation among the three risk management adoption decisions. Our empiricalresults suggest...

The commodity bull cycle of 2006-2008 and subsequent dramatic price decline have been asource of hardship for traditional commodity market participants such as producers andmerchant/shippers. The usefulness of futures markets has been called into question, especiallygiven that some market...

Futures prices when combined with a basis forecast provide a reliable way to forecast cashprices. The most popular method of forecasting basis is historical moving averages. Given therecent failure of longer moving averages proposed by previous studies, this research reassessespast...

While agricultural economics literature has become rife with the economics of ethanolproduction and cellulosic ethanol feedstock production, little has been written about capitalinvestment necessary for the magnitude of industry development mandated by the EnergySecurity and Independence Act of...

Since the United States imposed antidumping and countervailing duties totaling 14.16 percent on imports of Canadian hard red spring (HRS) wheat, Canadian exports to the United States have nearly stopped. This study examines the impact of the decreased HRS wheat imports from Canada on U.S. wheat...

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