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Regional Economic Implications of Water Allocation and Reliability

Harris, Simon; Doak, Murray; Ford, Stuart; Bywater, Tony; … - 2005

The understanding of how allocation decisions can maximise the economic returns to the community from water for irrigation has received little attention, but is a significant issue for regional councils, those interested in water allocation policy development, and for irrigated farmers. There is...

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Policy and Institutional effects on market participation by smallholder rice farmers: case studies in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger

Toure, Ali; Bamba, Ibrahim; Diagne, Aliou; Harouna, Kore; … - 2008

Rice sector contributes significantly to secure households with regard to their food needs but also to the creation of employments and income generation. The sector development and its evolution over the years have been marked by various policies and approaches. These development stages of the...

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Production Contracts and Farm Business Growth and Survival

Key, Nigel D. - 2010

In recent decades there has been a substantial increase in the scale of production and the use of production contracts in the hog sector. This paper explores empirically whether these two phenomena are related by examining whether the use of production contracts has allowed finish hog operations...

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Live and Feeder Cattle Options Markets: Returns, Risk, and Volatility Forecasting

Brittain, Lee; Garcia, Philip; Irwin, Scott H. - 2009

The paper examines empirical returns from holding thirty- and ninety-day call and put positions,and the forecasting performance of implied volatility in the live and feeder cattle optionsmarkets. In both markets, implied volatility is an upwardly biased and inefficient predictor ofrealized...

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The Emergent Vinifera Wine Industry in North Carolina: A Descriptive Overview

Ofori-Boadu, Victor; Yeboah, Osei-Agyeman; Bhadury, Joy; … - 2010

important in affecting their profitability. Results from the study shows that most of the wineries share some common traits …

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A Return of the Threshing Ring? A Case Study of Machinery and Labor-Sharing in Midwestern Farms

Artz, Georgeanne M.; Colson, Gregory; Ginder, Roger G. - 2010

Machinery-sharing provides an alternative for smaller producers to obtain the efficiencies of large farming operations and remain competitive in an increasingly concentrated agricultural industry. This research uses a multiple case study design to examine the motivations for sharing equipment...

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10 years of transition in Ukraine agriculture: An analysis of productivity and efficiency of enterprises

Lissitsa, Alexej; Odening, Martin; Babycheva, Tamara - 2003

This paper analyzes efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) change of large agriculturalenterprises during their transition to a market economy in Ukraine. In this case the efficiencyis calculated by data envelopment analysis and the productivity change is measured by theMalmquist...

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Influencing factors of profit and profitability of agricultural largefirms in the Omsk region, Russia

Schulze, Eberhard; Tillack, Peter; Patlassov, Oleg - 2002

profitability of Russian enterprises in the region of Omsk. Based on the finalyearly reports of the enterprises it is shown, that in … this article only the gross profit, or the profitability of the grossprofit are discussed. For the year 2000, the average … profitability of the gross profit of the examinedenterprises amounted to 2,0 %. The profitability on the basis of the profit before …

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The Relationship Between Wildfire and Welfare

Kaval, Pamela; Loomis, John B. - 2005

We used the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two wildfire scenarios. Variables such as age, family size, fire frequency, and house value were...

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