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Cash Wheat Marketing: Strategies for Real People
Brorsen, B. Wade; Anderson, Kim B. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 12 (1994) 2
A new paradigm is needed in extension marketing programs. Attempts to help producers time the market, either through … cask sales or futures trading, appear to be of little benefit. Marketing extension programs need to place less emphasis on … outlook and futures trading and more emphasis on simple marketing strategies that people really use. An empirical example of …
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FEASIBILITY OF A SHEEP COOPERATIVE FOR GRAZING LEAFY SPURGE - SUMMARY
Sell, Randall S.; Nudell, Daniel J.; Bangsund, Dean A.; … - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North … - 2000
This report presents an economic feasibility study of a 5,000 head, cooperatively owned, sheep operation for leafy spurge control. The objectives were 1) determine the return on investment of the cooperative, 2) determine the proposed structure of the cooperative, and 3) ascertain the amount of...
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Analysis on Peasants’ Diet Condition and Food Safety Awareness in Northern Jiangsu -From the Perspective of Economics
Xie, Xinyi; Tu, Baojun; Ma, Jing - In: Asian Agricultural Research 2 (2010) 10
Taking three counties in northern Jiangsu (Suining, Ganyu and Sihong) as the respondents, the economic principles of food safety issues of rural areas in northern Jiangsu are described from three aspects which are information asymmetry, food supply and food safety issue and food consumption and...
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Healthy Competition in the Animal Health Industry
Buhr, Brian L.; Holtkamp, Derald; Sornsen, Steve - In: Choices 26 (2011) 1
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Economic Analysis on Migrant Workers’ Education and Training from the Perspective of Supply and Demand
JU, Xianghong - In: Asian Agricultural Research 06 (2014) 04
The education and training are important methods to improve the quality of migrant workers and the key to solve the issues concerning agriculture, farmer and rural area. Based on theoretical and literature analysis, this paper analyzed economic problems in the education and training of migrant...
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Microfinance: Lessons Learned in Latin America
Miller-Sanabria, Tomas C. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
The relative success of microfinance in rural credit programs in Latin America is the result of a decentralized development approach stressing a large microenterprise sector, stable and permanent institutions, an appropriate regulatory framework, and a stable economy as essential prerequisites
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The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Interdisciplinary Research in Agriculture
Duffy, Patricia A.; Guertal, Elizabeth A.; Muntifering, … - In: Journal of Agribusiness 15 (1997) 2
Increasingly, interdisciplinary research is being touted as a way to solve real-life problems of interest to the taxpayers who support research at public universities. The purpose of this paper is to examine the benefits of interdisciplinary agricultural research involving economists and natural...
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Economics of Lignocellulosic Ethanol Production From Energy Cane
Monge, Juan J.; Ribera, Luis A.; Jifon, John L.; Silva, … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2013
A probabilistic financial model was developed to assess the economic feasibility of energy-cane-based hydrolysis ethanol production. At an expected price of $1.97/gallon and no tax credit, the chances of a positive NPV were 70%. By slightly increasing feedstock and ethanol yields by 5 units, the...
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FEASIBILITY OF A SHEEP COOPERATIVE FOR GRAZING LEAFY SPURGE
Sell, Randall S.; Nudell, Daniel J.; Bangsund, Dean A.; … - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North … - 2000
This report presents an economic feasibility study of a 5,000 head, cooperatively owned, sheep operation for leafy spurge control. The objectives were 1) determine the return on investment of the cooperative, 2) determine the proposed structure of the cooperative, and 3) ascertain the amount of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005525813
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Contract Farming for Agricultural Development:Review of Theory and Practice with Special Reference to India
Singh, Sukhpal - eSocialSciences - 2005
The present paper examines contract farming and its situation in India on the basis of nature of contracts, nature of contract growers, practice and implementation of contract farming and techniques, practices and changing dynamics of contract farming in India.
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