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Did the Federal Crop Insurance Reform Act Alter Farm Enterprise Diversification?
O'Donoghue, Erik J.; Roberts, Michael J.; Key, Nigel - 2009
We estimate how much United States farms changed enterprise diversification in response to a marked increase in crop … over time. By examining diversification decisions of the same farms over time, we control for time-invariant unobserved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429537
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Global trends in risk management support of agriculture
Spicka, J. - 2010
The aim of this paper is to make an international comparison of risk management policies in OECD countries as well as in selected emerging economies. The results are based on the data from OECD Producer Support Estimates Database and General Services Support Estimates Database, a study of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443743
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HOG RISK MANAGEMENT SURVEY: SUMMARY AND PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS
Patrick, George F.; Baquet, Alan E.; Coble, Keith H.; … - 2000
This paper summarizes the results of a survey of a stratified, random sample of 630 hog operations in Indiana and Nebraska. The survey was conducted in March and April, 2000 with support of a research grant to contribute to the development of a knowledge base to guide the design and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444139
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Site restoration: Estimation of attributable costs from plutonium-dispersal accidents
Chanin, D.I.; Murfin, W.B. - 2009
A nuclear weapons accident is an extremely unlikely event due to the extensive care taken in operations. However, under some hypothetical accident conditions, plutonium might be dispersed to the environment. This would result in costs being incurred by the government to remediate the site and...
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2008 WIND TECHNOLOGIES MARKET REPORT
Wiser, Ryan H.; Bolinger, Mark; Barbose, G.; Mills, A.; … - 2010
smaller, customer-sited wind turbines used to power the needs of residences, farms, and businesses. Data on these applications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436529
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Job and Economic Development Impact (JEDI) Model: A User-Friendly Tool to Calculate Economic Impacts from Wind Projects; Preprint
Sinclair, K.; Milligan, M.; Goldberg, M. - 2008
The U.S. Department of Energy/National Renewable Energy Laboratory (DOE/NREL) has developed a spreadsheet-based wind model (Jobs and Economic Development Impact (JEDI)) that incorporates economic multipliers for jobs, income, and output. Originally developed with state-specific parameters, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437043
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Wheeler County Riparian Buffers; 2002-2003 Annual Report.
Potter, Judy; Homer, Will - 2008
Problems Encountered During Contract Year--Wheeler County residents are mostly non participants when it comes to Farm Services programs. Results of the counties non participation is the rental rates are the lowest in the state. There is a government fear factor as well as an obvious distance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437047
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Avoiding the Haircut: Potential Ways to Enhance the Value of theUSDA's Section 9006 Program
Bolinger, Mark - 2008
Section 9006 of Title IX of The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (the '2002 Farm Bill') established the Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvements Program (the 'Section 9006 program'). Administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Section...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437189
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Productivity Change in Polish Agriculture: An Application of a Bootstrap Procedure to Malmquist Indices
Balcombe, Kelvin George; Davidova, Sophia; Latruffe, Laure - 2005
that between two-thirds and four-fifths of the sample farms (250) in different years might have experienced no change in … productivity. The cluster analysis based on confidence bounds reveals three paths of productivity change. Farms which recorded an … farmers, and more integrated in factor and product markets. However, they account for only 19 percent of the sample farms. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443880
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Endogenous Matching and Contractual Choice between Agricultural Processors and Farmers in China
Abler, David; Yu, Xiaohua; Chen, Danhong - 2011
firms which contract with a larger number of farms are more likely to use cooperation contracts than relational contracts. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444342