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considerable potential to become one of the main sources of biomass to meet the 2022 renewable fuel target. Focusing on the land …
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This paper aims to investigate if the legislation will allow the production of energy fromwinery by-products and how … generate due to the high levelof methane included in the pressings that could be transformed in energy, the short periodneeded …
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This study examines the dynamic effects of grain prices and energy prices on catfish feed prices and the price of food …-run relationship between feed and farm prices and their determinants was confirmed. Given the effect of corn and soybean meal prices on …
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This paper presents findings on the use of HT corn and quality-adjusted herbicide use for 12 key corn producing states … using a panel data set for 1986-2008. Our preliminary findings indicate an insignificant impact of HT corn on herbicide use …, conditioning or accounting for HT corn with other important drivers of corn herbicide use: HT soy, corn output price, glyphoste …
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The 2002 New Zealand Transport Strategy states that in the long run, economic development and transport activity need not be directly related. This implies that a degree of „decoupling‟ is required – that economic development needs to occur without similar growth in transport. Before...
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The interconnections of agriculture and energy markets have increased through the rise in the new biofuel … agribusinesses and the oil–ethanol–corn linkages. The question is whether these linkages have a causal structure by which oil prices … affect commodity prices and through these links, instability is transferred from energy markets to already volatile …
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Market interactions between the common-property commercial fishery and (1) competitive aquaculturists and (2) a dominant-firm aquaculturist are modeled. It is found that the entry of a competitive aquaculturist increases natural fish stocks, reduces price, and increases total supply. If...
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This paper considers the effects of granting a fishermen's sales organization exclusive rights to sell unprocessed fish. On the assumption that the fishermen's monopolyis able to discriminate between plants and end use alternatives in its pricing policy, the conditions for profit maximization...
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Production costs for fresh Atlantic groundfish and scallop processing are examined using direct observation, linear regression analysis, and cost accounting. Assuming that management chooses a production technique where marginal costs are constant over a wide range of production due to...
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In a recent paper, Clark and Munro (1980)showed that monopsony processing more than offsets the effects of open-access in the harvesting sector of a commercial fishery, and leads to overconservation of the resource. We show here that this conclusion depends critically on the cost of capacity and...
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