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alternatives include wheat, sorghum-sudan, summer perennial grass, and native range. Precipitation risk and price risk are …
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dryland wheat and sorghum and for alternative dryland crop/livestock systems. A crop simulation model aids yield estimation …
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Dual-purpose winter wheat (fall-winter forage plus grain) production is an important economic enterprise in the … optimal grazing termination date for dual-purpose wheat. The value of knowing the occurrence of first hollow stem (FHS), a … wheat growth threshold for grazing termination, is also determined. Results indicate that for most price situations grazing …
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Models of agricultural economics typically operate at an annual basis or in a static equilibriumframework where inputs, outputs and their prices may change considerably. Production dynamics,however, imply that models relying on spatial and temporal aggregation do not capture the effects...
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Cattle feeding enterprises operate amid variability originating in prices and production. Thisresearch explicitly models yield risks related to cattle feeding by relating the mean and varianceof yield performance factors to observable conditioning variables. The results demonstratethat pen...
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Canada’s hog sector has faced two decades of tumultuous growth, yet there are no recent estimates of supply response. A state-space model for hog supply response is developed that accounts for the time series properties of the data while accounting for a multiplicity of unspecified sources for...
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This paper investigates the effects of network based individual social capital on the access of rural households to services. In the context of development economics, an innovative data collection approach is used to determine network based social capital. The approach originates from the field...
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Cover page and table of contents for issue 41/2
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Australian farmers have been warned of increases in wool auction price fluctuations since 2000 (Kingwell), yet 85% of producers continue to sell their wool on the highly volatile, open-cry auction system (Bolt 2004). It has been suggested that forward selling is one method available to farmers...
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