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Technology Adoption And Pest Control Strategies Among UK Cereal Farmers: Evidence from Parametric and Nonparametric Count Data Models
Sharma, Abhijit; Bailey, Alastair; Fraser, Iain - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
This paper examines technology adoption and integrated pest management strategies employed by UK farmers, using both … determinants of technology adoption in relation to pest management. Our preferred model specification is nonparametric which makes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913480
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The Economics of Nested Insurance: The Case of SURE
Cooper, Joseph C.; Sproul, Thomas; Zilberman, David - 2010
evaluate the impact on of SURE on intensification, acreage and adoption. The results suggest that parameters of a government … program like SURE may enhance the adoption and value of crop insurance to the farm sector. A quantitative understanding of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446140
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The Economics of Nested Insurance: The Case of SURE
Cooper, Joseph C.; Sproul, Thomas W.; Zilberman, David - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
evaluate the impact on of SURE on intensification, acreage and adoption. The results suggest that parameters of a government … program like SURE may enhance the adoption and value of crop insurance to the farm sector. A quantitative understanding of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020867
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A Risk Analysis of Converting CRP Acres to a Wheat-Sorghum-Fallow Rotation
Williams, Jeffery R.; Llewelyn, Richard V.; Pendell, … - 2008
This study examines the economic potential of producing a wheat (Triticum aesitivum) and grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) rotation with three different tillage strategies compared to the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in a semi-arid region. This research uses stochastic efficiency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445784
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Irrigation Restriction and Biomass Market Interactions: The Case of the Alluvial Aquifer
Popp, Michael P.; Nalley, Lawton Lanier; Vickery, Gina B. - 2010
The U.S. Geological Survey has determined that irrigation in Arkansas’ Delta is unsustainable. This study examines how irrigation restrictions would affect county net returns to cropproduction. It also considers the effect of planting less water-intensive bioenergycrops—switchgrass and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446307
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2009
Includes cover page, journal info, contents page, and editorial information
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An Economic Risk Analysis of Tillage and Cropping Systems on the Arkansas Grand Prairie
Hignight, Jeffrey A.; Watkins, K. Bradley; Anders, Merle M. - 2010
rice producers in Arkansas practice NT. The low adoption rate is most likely due to difficulties in management but also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446518
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Agricultural Arbitrage, Adjustment Costs, and the Intensive Margin
Tack, Jesse B.; LaFrance, Jeffrey T. - 2010
Farmland and capital are an important and rapidly expanding component of the agriculturaleconomy, and empirical evidence suggests that these assets are quasi-fixed in that adjustment costs are incurred when holdings are altered. Increased interest in the rate of return for investing in farmland...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446523
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Segmenting Consumers to Inform Agrifood Value Chain Development in Nepal
Adhikari, Rajendra Prasad; Collins, Ray; Sun, Ximing - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 15 (2012) 4
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878876
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Transgenic technology adoption and on-farm varietal diversity
Krishna, Vijesh V.; Zilberman, David; Qaim, Matin - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
substitution, as both serve as production risk reducing instruments. This adverse agro-biodiversity impact of technology adoption … first years, technology adoption entailed a reduction in on-farm varietal diversity. This effect, however, was partially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880108