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The U.S. forest sector in 2030: markets and competitors.
Turner, J.A.; Buongiorno, J.; Zhu, S.; Prestemon, J.P. - 2005
The Global Forest Products Model was used to project international forest sector developments, conditional on the latest RPA Timber Assessment of future domestic changes in the United States. While the United States, Japan, and Europe were predicted to remain major importers of forest products...
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Determinants of economic well-being among U.S. farm operator households.
El-Osta, Hisham S.; Mishra, Ashok K.; Morehart, Mitchell J. - 2007
Participation in government programs has a mild impact on the economic well-being of U.S. farm households. Major factors that determine farm household prosperity are the primary operator's education level and ethnicity, education level of the spouse, and other characteristics such as forward...
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Characteristics and hedonic pricing of differentiated beef demands.
Hahn, William F.; Mathews, Kenneth H. Jr. - 2007
We estimate a CBS system model of U.S. derived demand for meat. We use this model (1) to examine relationships between … three quality categories of beef and three other meats and (2) to simulate how taste shifts have affected demands for meats … over time. We extend previous studies by disaggregating wholesale beef production into three quality categories: (1) USDA …
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Managing Risk in Agriculture Through Hedging and Crop Insurance: What Does a National Survey Reveal?
Mishra, Ashok K.; El-Osta, Hisham S. - 2002
, off-farm income, forward contracting sales of crops and livestock, and computer use are positively related to a farmer …
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Uniform and Non-Uniform Second-Best Input Taxes.
Claassen, Roger; Horan, Richard D. - 2001
We investigate second-best, input-based taxes foragricultural nonpoint pollution control when marketprices are endogenous and production isheterogeneous. Theoretically, we derive the optimalforms of taxes which take account of heterogeneity(non-uniform taxes) and a tax which does not (auniform...
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Impact of the South Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement on the U.S. Livestock Sector
Fabiosa, Jacinto F.; Hayes, Dermot J.; Dong, Fengxia - 2007
The recently signed Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) grants the U.S. livestock industry with preferential … access to South Korea's import market. This study evaluates the likely impacts of the KORUS FTA on the U.S. livestock sector ….Using the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute's modeling system, we find that livestock prices increase by 0.5% to 3 …
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Three Essays on the Demand of Imported and Domestic Meat and Livestock in the United States
Boonsaeng, Tullaya - 2006
of imports supplied from Canada on the meat and livestock industries. Our simulation results predict small effects on …This dissertation studies the demand for imported and domestic demand models for meat and livestock. The first essay … domestic and imported livestock by the US meat processing industry and explores the existence of long-run relationships in the …
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Agricultural contracting and the scale of production.
Key, N. - 2004
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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Organic premiums of US fresh produce.
Lin, Biing-Hwan; Smith, Travis A.; Huang, Chung L. - 2008
The study uses the 2005 Nielsen Homescan panel data to estimate price premiums and discounts associated with product attributes, market factors, and consumer characteristics, focusing on the organic attribute for five major fresh fruits and five major fresh vegetables in the United States. The...
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External economic drivers and US agricultural production systems.
Halloran, J.M.; Archer, D.W. - 2008
US agriculture operates in a market driven economy, although government policies can have influence on what farmers produce and how they produce it. As with other businesses, agricultural producers respond to economic incentives and disincentives, and make decisions to maximize their welfare;...
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