Methane is a greenhouse gas that is emitted mainly by livestock, and accounts for about 14% of national greenhouse gas emissions. If Australia is to meet the Kyoto targets, then greater attention is likely to be focused on ways that methane emissions can be reduced. The three main options to...

We use results of a consumer taste test conducted in Portland, Oregon, and choice-based conjoint analysis to examine consumer attitudes about grass-fed beef compared to conventional grain-fed: taste preferences, willingness to pay, and willingness to buy frozen meat in bulk. We consider the...

A Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier function is estimated for the cow-calf enterprises in the Texas Rolling Plains using Standardized Performance Analysis (SPA) data. We find that factors promoting higher herd productivity include machinery investment, pasture-quality improvement, and protein...

Bioeconomics to date has focused almost exclusively on lumped parameter models where the resource is described by a single state variable defined as biomass. While such models are convenient mathematically they may be inappropriate in fisheries where recruitment and fecundity are dependent on...

Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture implies changes in farm management practices. Knowledge on farmers’ current adoption of management practices aimed at reducing emissions, and their preferences regarding these, is important to inform the development of robust climate change mitigation...