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What Does the “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act” Mean to Tobacco Growers?
Tiller, Kelly; Starnes, Jane H.; Feleke, Shiferaw T. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2010
The “Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act” was signed into law on June 22, 2009. The bill grants the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) an authority to regulate the manufacturing and marketing of tobacco products. Tobacco leaf is not subject to the regulation. As a...
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The use of policy scenarios for water quality in stakeholder consultation
Parminter, Terry G.; Greenberg, Emily - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2012
in rural waterways. In mid-2012 the authors prepared a number of policy scenarios from published regional council … workshop they reviewed the proposed policy problem and objective, as well as the policy scenarios. Workshop participants then … used post-it® notes to complete a template that described the attributes underlying the policy scenarios. The results were …
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Determinants of Agro-Dealers’ Participation in the Loan Market in Nigeria
Olomola, Aderibigbe S. - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 17 (2014) 3
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Water quality in stakeholder consultation II: facilitated review of policies and rules for a regional plan
Parminter, Terry; Greenberg, Emily - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2013
This paper describes further progress in a new approach to stakeholder consultation for policies about agricultural land uses and water quality in rural waterways; a process that was begun early in 2012. The initial consultation events provided the basis for a future draft of Greater Wellington...
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How Much Animal Product do the Chinese Consume? Empirical Evidence from Household Surveys
Wang, Ji-Min; Zhou, Zhang-Yue; Yang, Jun - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 12 (2004)
Reliable information about animal product consumption in China is extremely important for policy formulation and … underestimated statistics affect policy making and marketing initiatives and also lead to the estimation of distorted parameters that …
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Modelling of cereal and oilseed crop production in Bulgaria in the context of policy changes
Ivanov, Bozhidar; Sokolova, Emilia - In: Studies in Agricultural Economics 116 (2014) 1
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Analysis of Rice Production Instability in Southeast Asian Countries
Sawaneh, Mamma; Latif, Ismail Abd; Abdullah, Amin Mahir - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 03 (2013) 10
This study measures the extent of rice production instability and the sources of instability in selected rice producing … increase production differs from one country to another. It is noted that instability in area, yield and production in …
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Organic Farming Policies and the Growth of the Organic Sector in Denmark and the UK: A Comparative Analysis
Daugbjerg, Carsten; Tranter, Richard B.; Holloway, Garth J. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
organic sector. Analyses of organic farming policy instruments, for the most part, provide extensive and detailed reviews of …
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The Impact of Precision Agriculture Techniques on Kentucky Grain Farmers' Carbon Footprint
Brown, Rachael M.; Dillon, Carl R.; Schieffer, Jack; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2012
This study estimates the carbon footprint of a Henderson County, Kentucky grain farmer under different production strategies; traditional farming and precision agriculture technologies. Four constrained optimization, whole farm analysis models were formulated under no-till conditions. One of the...
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Manure Application Rules and Environmental Considerations
Massey, Raymond E.; Gedikoglu, Haluk - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2011
Three manure application limits (N Limit, Annual P Limit and P Banking) were modeled with particular attention to the number of hours needed to appropriately distribute manure. The benefit and costs estimates indicated that P Banking was more profitable than N Limit which was more profitable...
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