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FARM CHARACTERISTICS THAT INFLUENCE NET FARM INCOME VARIABILITY AND LOSSES

Dunn, Jerry W.; Williams, Jeffery R. - 2000

enterprise diversification. The results suggest that quantifying the impacts of socioeconomic factors on variability of net farm …-section data, increases in interest costs, age, and diversification were found to have positive relationships with net income … variability. However, only the diversification variable was significant when deviations below mean net farm income were used as …

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Farmers' strategies in globalization markets: Empirical results from Germany

Inderhees, Philipp; Theuvsen, Ludwig - 2006

Today the European agrofood sector is increasingly confronted with the threatsas well as the opportunities of liberalizing markets. Therefore, competitiveness on globalmarkets is becoming of paramount importance for European farmers. The challenges ofglobal markets are accompanied by a growing...

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Collaboration within the UK Farm Industry

Alliston, John C.; Newton, David; Gonzalez-Diaz, Francisco - 2005

commercial sectors in order to identify transferable elements. The Report of the Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and …

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The Effect of Farm Labor Organization on IPM Adoption: Empirical Evidence from Thailand

Beckmann, Volker; Irawan, Evi; Wesseler, Justus - 2006

adoption developed by Beckmann and Wes seler (2003). We use cross section data collected from the participatory farming system …

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From Bioeconomic Farm Models to Multi-Agent Systems: Challenges for Parameterization and Validation

Berger, Thomas; Schreinemachers, Pepijn - 2006

face in crop choice and farming practices, assess the profitability of various land-use options and capture the internal …

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Modelling Production Risk in Small Scale Subsistence Agriculture

Asche, Frank; Guttormsen, Atle G.; Roll, Kristin H. - 2006

In this paper we are investigating how production risk may influence the way a risk averse producer like a subsistence farmer chooses optimal input levels. Risk averse producers will take into account both the mean and the variance of output, and therefore we expect them to choose input levels...

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Less Discussed Dynamics in the Czech Farm Structure Development

Curtiss, Jarmila; Ratinger, Tomas; Medonos, Tomas - 2006

The paper provides an empirical study of the dynamics of ownership changes in Czech agricultural companies, which are assigned by unique heterogeneity in ownership forms. Since employee ownership has retained a relatively important place in these structures, neoclassical, as well as...

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HOW MUCH DO FARMERS VALUE THEIR INDEPENDENCE? ESTIMATING THE RISK AND AUTONOMY PREMIA ASSOCIATED WITH PRODUCTION CONTRACTS

Key, Nigel D. - 2002

A farmer's decision to contract or produce independently depends on the distribution of income under both arrangements, and on attributes associated with both business arrangements. Risk-averse farmers should be willing to pay a risk premium for the reduction in price risk provided by a...

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LABOR, LIQUIDITY, LEARNING, CONFORMITY AND SMALLHOLDER TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION: THE CASE OF SRI IN MADAGASCAR

Moser, Christine M.; Barrett, Christopher B. - 2002

Although rice accounts for approximately forty-four percent of land under cultivation and forty-six percent of caloric intake in Madagascar, most farmers cannot produce enough rice to feed their families. Total rice production increased little in the country during the 1990s, and yields were...

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Climate Change and Farm Use of Weather Information

Artikov, Ikrom S.; Lynne, Gary D. - 2005

More rapid than normal global climate change as represented by rising temperatures and more erratic and severe weather events have heightened the interest in how farmers use weather information. The greenhouse influence through driving climate change will likely be affecting agricultural efforts...

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