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influence producers' decisions and shape the individual systems through modification of management practices, crop and livestock … producers bear greater risk, but also have greater flexibility in altering the crop and livestock mix and are better able to …
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acreages or have large effects on the year-to-year variability offarm revenues for these crops. In both cases, the changes in …
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For most irrigation systems, the most practical method for determining the global distribution uniformity (i.e., that experienced by the entire crop) is to measure the uniformity resulting from several components and combine them statistically. In this paper, procedures and equations are...
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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 …
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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 …
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) crops, despite payments being decoupled from current production decisions. Those choosing to reduce revenue risk by … increasing plantings of base crops may face reduced incomes, suggesting the efficiency of crop markets may be diminished. …
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present synthesis of two detailed country studies confirmed widespread adoption of zero tillage (ZT) wheat in the rice-wheat … for wheat cultivation. Thus, the prime driver for ZT adoption is not water savings or natural resource conservation but …
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This study analyzes the potential impact of climate change on China's corn, wheat, and rice, domestic agricultural …
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the crude oil market. In the long-run, around 2-7 percent of the variability in grains, oilseeds, and cotton prices can be …
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This study presents evidence that contracting is positively associated with the scale of production for six major U.S. agricultural commodities. Specifically, contract producers tend to operate at a larger scale than do independent producers, and the likelihood of an operation contracting...
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