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Cost evaluation of alternative switchgrass producing, harvesting, storing, and transporting systems and their logistics in the Southeastern USA

Larson, James A.; Yu, Tun‐Hsiang; English, Burton C.; … - In: Agricultural Finance Review 70 (2010) 2, pp. 184-200

Purpose – The US Department of Energy has a goal to make ethanol from biomass cost competitive with petroleum by 2012. Feedstock procurement is expected to represent a significant portion of the operating costs for a refinery that produces ethanol from biomass such as switchgrass. Thus,...

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Agricultural financial market segments

Roucan‐Kane, Maud; Alexander, Corinne; Boehlje, Michael D. - In: Agricultural Finance Review 70 (2010) 2, pp. 231-244

Purpose – For agricultural bankers, agribusiness managers, and salespeople, understanding customers and their preferences and behaviors is crucial to success. The two goals of this paper are first to identify today's distinct market segments for financial products for US crop and livestock...

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On the systemic nature of weather risk

Xu, Wei; Filler, Guenther; Odening, Martin; Okhrin, Ostap - In: Agricultural Finance Review 70 (2010) 2, pp. 267-284

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the losses of weather‐related insurance at different regional levels. The possibility of spatial diversification of insurance is explored by estimating the joint occurrence on unfavorable weather conditions in different locations, looking...

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Nonparametric estimation of market risk: an application to agricultural commodity futures

Sam, Abdoul G. - In: Agricultural Finance Review 70 (2010) 2, pp. 285-297

Purpose – While the extant literature is replete with theoretical and empirical studies of value at risk (VaR) methods, only a few papers have applied the concept of VaR to quantify market risk in the context of agricultural finance. Furthermore, papers that have done so have largely relied on...

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Retirement planning by Dutch farmers: rationality or randomness?

van Asseldonk, M.A.P.M.; van der Veen, H.B.; van der … - In: Agricultural Finance Review 70 (2010) 3, pp. 365-376

Purpose – In self‐directed retirement plans, farmers are responsible for selecting the types of risky investments toward which the funds in their retirement plan are allocated. Furthermore, farmers do not necessarily purchase sufficient annuities with their savings upon retirement. There is...

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The total factor productivity in China and India: new measures and approaches

Nin Pratt, Alejandro; Yu, Bingxin; Fan, Shenggen - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2008) 1, pp. 9-22

agricultural reform followed by China and India had on the performance of agriculture in both countries. …

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The impact of remittance income on rural households in China

Snyder, Steve; Chern, Wen S. - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2008) 1, pp. 38-57

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of remittance income on rural households in China. Design/methodology/approach – Using data from a large survey of farming households in three Chinese provinces, the impacts of remittances and other types of income on...

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Thought and practice of sustainable development in Chinese traditional agriculture

Genpan, Li - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2008) 1, pp. 97-109

Chinese civilization is continuously developing, and it can be used as a reference for the development of Chinese agriculture … concerning Chinese traditional agriculture, including view of sancai , farming season, fertility, the nature of matters …, recycling, and economization. Findings – The results reveal that the nature of Chinese traditional agriculture is akin to …

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Review of China's agricultural and rural development: policy changes and current issues

Chen, Xiwen - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 2, pp. 121-135

policies of China's agriculture and rural development, and analyzes the characteristics of and reasons for China's grain price …

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A conceptual framework for supply chain governance

Zhang, Xiaoyong; Aramyan, Lusine H. - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 2, pp. 136-154

Purpose – Chinese agri‐food chains consist of the millions of small scale farmers, who are not well structured and organized in the supply chain. Owing to market liberalization and globalization, one of the most challenging issues along agri‐food chains in China is becoming the issue of...

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