, off-farm income, forward contracting sales of crops and livestock, and computer use are positively related to a farmer …

livestock markets. The aim is to determine the extent to which selected meat and livestock markets transmit price signals across …Price transmission is a critically important issue that affects market enlargement and the unification of Canadian … the international border using time-series data through 2001. Typically, price-based studies examining market integration …

Electronic animal identification systems are becoming more common in livestock auctionmarkets because of increased … analyzed to determine how they relate to a livestock market operator'sviews, concerns, and knowledge of the NAIS as well as … adoption of RFID reading equipment.Investments in RFID tagging services and RFID reading equipment by livestock markets …

total factor productivity growth for crops, ruminants and non-ruminant livestock, on a global basis. We then follow with … suggest that most regions in the sample are likely to experience larger productivity gains in livestock than in crops. Within … livestock, the non-ruminant sector is expected to continue to be more dynamic than the ruminant sector. Given the rapid rates of …

Studies of total factor productivity in livestock production are rare, but when available provide useful information … especially in the context of developing countries such as China where livestock is becoming more important in the domestic … agricultural economy. We estimate total factor productivity (TFP) for four major livestock products in China employing the …

livestock. The whole-farm insurance product covers crop revenues from corn and soybeans and livestock revenues from hog …

traditional subsistence and semi-subsistence crop-livestock households is unclear. A system dynamics model was built to conduct an … ex-ante impact assessment of livestock-based interventions in crop-livestock systems in northern Afghanistan. The dynamic … simulation model draws on available data, including household level surveys and government price data to predict the outcome of …

specific contexts. Our interest is in the role of human relationships in managing natural resources (forage and livestock) in … facilitates livestock mobility as a human response to a situation where rainfall is so variable in time and space that it is … difficult to maintain an economically viable livestock herd on a single management unit. Contrary to expectations, we found that …

analysis of the impact caused by the presence of business units, the livestock and agricultural production on the GDP per … per capita is strongly impacted by the livestock and agriculture practiced in its neighbours. In relation to the amount of …