particular importance to upcoming federal regulation of large-scale livestock production under the Clean Air Act. By exploiting …Research on environmental regulation’s effects on economic activity has largely focused on manufacturing, ignoring one … of the major polluters in the U.S. – commercial agriculture. As livestock production has become increasingly mobile …

Studies of total factor productivity in livestock production are rare, but when available provide useful information … especially in the context of developing countries such as China where livestock is becoming more important in the domestic … agricultural economy. We estimate total factor productivity (TFP) for four major livestock products in China employing the …

livestock. The whole-farm insurance product covers crop revenues from corn and soybeans and livestock revenues from hog …

information generated through a formal survey conducted in the major pastoral livestock markets of Ethiopia with 128 collectors … season as important determinants of livestock price formation. Age group and body condition of the traded animals, buyer and … seller types are also important observable attributes influencing formation of livestock prices. …

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 …

location choices of livestock producers. In the two sectors (hog and dairy) where significant regional production shifts have … regulatory stringency appears to increase ex post as a response to increasing livestock production levels. Thus, with the … on livestock production decisions and consequently regional comparative advantage …