A gestão dos resultados das atividades agropecuárias tem se tornado um constante desafio para os empresários rurais e a sua mensuração é imprescindível para o planejamento e análises de desempenho. No caso do mercado do boi gordo não tem sido diferente, principalmente, no que se refere...

Currently France wants to introduce a weather risk management framework intoits agricultural policy for livestock farming. The aim of this paper is to better understand howon-farm risk reducing strategies modify the production system and profit distribution ofFrench suckler cow enterprises. We...

The economic consequences of livestock epidemics have been long studied for purposes ofestimating the costs of the veterinary measures. In this paper, we show that this catastrophicrisk may have wide market consequences, and that the risk management systems are quitelimited to compensate long...

Averting or limiting the outbreak of infectious disease in domestic livestock herds is an economic and potential human health issue that involves both the government and individual livestock producers. Producers have private information about preventive biosecurity measures they adopt on their...

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...

This paper explores the factors that impact insurance choices. Specially designed survey questions allow one to fully observe the demand tendency by the farmers and partially observe the supply tendency by the insurance company. A joint estimation of insurance decision by both supply and demand...

We used the well-being evaluation method, a technique for measuring individual utility, to study how people in the wildland urban interface of Colorado (USA) felt about their lives before and after two wildfire scenarios. Variables such as age, family size, fire frequency, and house value were...

O presente estudo tem como objetivo, usando simulações, analisar as operações dehedge com contratos de boi gordo da Bolsa de Mercadorias & Futuros (BM&F). Assimulações compreenderam o período de 2001 a 2006, sendo que em todos os anos oscontratos simulados são do mesmo vencimento,...

This paper determines the dynamic interaction between prices of corn, soybean, grain sorghum (milo), wheat, feeder cattle and live (fed) cattle by taking into account the surge in corn consumption stemming from the boost of mandated ethanol production. Corn is a major carbohydrate-feed component...

European farmers face increasing income uncertainty and the debate is growing on the role of insurance schemes and of public support in this field. This debate is further stimulated by the perspective of introducing instruments to cope with risk also in the Common Agricultural Policy. Therefore,...