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Energy prices increased significantly following the first energy price shock of 1973. Agricultural producers found few short run substitution possibilities as relative factor prices changed. Inelastic demands resulted in total expenditures on energy inputs that have closely followed energy price...
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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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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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biztosítható. The creation of income stability in the rural economy is always an important aspiration of agricultural policy. For … income uncertain. Agricultural policy is, via subsidies, bound to mitigate primarily the unfavourable effects of expenditure …. Hungary’s agricultural policy was unable to contribute to increased nominal income stability in the sector, which can …
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Agricultural price volatility is "bad". But where does it come from? Remedies are completely different for "endogenous" or "exogenous" fluctuations. The recent crisis seems to indicate that exogenous remedies have been applied to endogenous fluctuations.
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Agricultural price volatility is "bad". But where does it come from? Remedies are completely different for "endogenous" or "exogenous" fluctuations. The recent crisis seems to indicate that exogenous remedies have been applied to endogenous fluctuations.
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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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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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