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State Grain Rail Statistical Summary
Prater, Marvin; O'Neil Jr., Daniel; Adam, Sparger - Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture - 2013
The rail industry is an integral part of the agricultural transportation system of the United States. For producers and shippers of bulk commodities, railroads are particularly important for the movement to end users, many of whom are located long distances from the farms. Information on rail...
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The status and potential of livestock within the context of agricultural development policy in Bangladesh
Jabbar, M A; Green, D A G - Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, … - 1982
Based on secondary data and field surveys, analyses the economic roles of the livestock sectors, technological and policy constraints for livestock development and policy options for the future development.
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Factors Affecting Adoption of Cow-Calf Production Practices in Oklahoma
Ward, Clement E.; Vestal, Mallory K.; Doye, Damona G.; … - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 40 (2008) 03
Most technology adoption research has focused on crops. Primary data were used to determine differences in management practices among two groups of Oklahoma cow-calf producers based on herd size and cattle income dependence. Significant differences were noted between two groups of producers...
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Understanding Factors That Influence Breeders to Sell Bulls at Performance Tests
Lillywhite, Jay M.; Simonsen, J. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 40 (2008) 03
Breeders of purebred bulls have multiple avenues to market their bulls, including consignment at public auctions associated with performance tests. Purebred breeders often have the opportunity to withdraw bulls that are eligible to sell in these auctions. We examine sales data from a public...
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Manure as a Resource: Livestock Waste Management from Anaerobic Digestion,Opportunities and Challenges for Brazil
Mathias, João Felippe Cury Marinho - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 17 (2014) 4
The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. www.ifama.org
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Land access and feeding strategies in post-Soviet livestock husbandry: Evidence from a rangeland system in Kazakhstan
Robinson, Sarah; Petrick, Martin - In: Agricultural Systems 219 (2024)
CONTEXT: Feeding strategy is a major dimension of intensification and largely determines the environmental and economic … livelihoods. Literature suggests that a key driver of intensification is increasing population density – associated with decreased … rangeland environments implying important trade-offs to intensification which merit further study. …
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Ranchers or pastoralists? Farm size, specialisation and production strategy amongst cattle farmers in south-eastern Kazakhstan
Robinson, Sarah; Bozayeva, Zhanyl; Mukhamedova, Nozilakhon - In: Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 11 (2021)
Against the global trend towards sedentary, specialised and feed-intensive cattle farming, we explore current patterns of production in Kazakhstan's traditionally nomadic livestock sector. Experts see considerable potential for output expansion, and the government hopes to promote the sector as...
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Rethinking land endowment and inequality in rural Africa : the importance of soil fertility
Turner, Matthew D. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 87 (2016), pp. 258-273
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Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited
Gehrke, Esther; Grimm, Michael - 2014
This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a state in the south of India, we examine average and...
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Do cows have negative returns? : the evidence revisited
Gehrke, Esther; Grimm, Michael - 2014
This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a state in the south of India, we examine average and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413090