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Future Public Policy and Ethical Issues Facing the Agricultural and Microbial Genomics Sectors of the Biotechnology Industry: A Roundtable Discussion
Diane E. Hoffmann - 2009
scientists conducted recombinant DNA research on transgenic microbes, animals and crops, to more global issues. These newer …. Some of the issues may benefit from legislation at the federal or state levels, others may be more appropriately addressed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436478
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Basis Risk and Weather Hedging Effectiveness
Woodard, Joshua D.; Garcia, Philip - 2007
traded weather derivatives to hedge agriculturalproduction and insurance risk. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445047
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Imbedding dynamic responses with imperfect information into static portraits of the regional impact of climate change
Yohe, G.W. - 2008
It is becoming increasingly clear, at least on a theoretical level, that modelers of the potential impacts of climate change must impose that change upon the world as it will be configured sometime in the future rather than confine their attention to considerations of what would happen to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435515
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The Conservation Reserve Program as a Means to Subsidize Bioenergy Crop Prices
Walsh, M.E.; Becker, D.; Graham, R.L. - 2008
examines the potential impact an economic use policy would have on the market prices of bioenergy crops if they were permitted … ton) for switchgrass and $24.2/dry Mg ($22/dry ton) for short-rotation woody crops can be achieved. Furthermore, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435756
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World Biofuels Study
Alfstad,T. - 2009
crops and development of supply curves (ORNL). (2) Assessment of the cost and performance of biofuel production technologies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435827
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From Prediction to Prescription: Intelligent Decision Support for Variable Rate Fertilization
Fink, Raymond Keith; Hoskinson, Reed Louis; Hess, John … - 2009
We describe the use of machine learning methods in the analysis of spatial soil fertility, soil physical characteristics, and yield data, with a particular objective of determining local (field- to farm-scale) crop response patterns. For effective prescriptive use, the output of these tools is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436077
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Assessing the Economic Viability of Bio-based Products for Missouri Value-added Crop Production
Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes - 2008
While research and development on biobased products has continued strong over the years, parallel attention on the economics and management of such product innovation has been lacking. With the financial support of the Department of Energy, the Economics and Management of Agrobiotechnology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436168
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Model documentation, Renewable Fuels Module of the National Energy Modeling System
2009
This report documents the objectives, analytical approach, and design of the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) Renewable Fuels Module (RFM) as it relates to the production of the Annual Energy Outlook 1998 (AEO98) forecasts. The report catalogues and describes modeling assumptions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436363
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Mexico joins the venture: Joint Implementation and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Imaz, M.; Gay, C.; Friedmann, R.; Goldberg, B. - 2008
Joint Implementation (JI) and its pilot phase of Activities Implemented Jointly (AIJ) are envisioned as an economic way of reducing global emissions of greenhouse gases. This paper draws upon the Mexican experience with AIJ to identify Mexican concerns with AIJ/JI and proposed solutions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436543
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Production costs and supply of biomass by U.S. Region
Walsh, M. - 2009
The Biofuels Feedstock Development Program has attempted to estimate the cost of producing dedicated energy crops for … of the cost of producing dedicated energy crops. The costs are estimated as enterprise budgets which means that costs of … producing energy crops are estimated as separate entities, and not estimated in context of the entire farm management structure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436835