Chinese rural credit cooperatives (RCCs) are a major supplier of credit to the rural sector in the country. However, Chinese RCCs are currently encountering operating problems, and an experimental reform is being carried out to restructure and reform the RCCs. In order to have some idea about...

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Focuses on the measurement of market power in the beef processing industry in the United States. Causal linkage between concentrated industrial structure and antisocial economic performance; Structure-conduct-performance paradigm; Basic model for fed-cattle studies.

reprint of Kilkenny (1998) Journal of Regional Science article in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics

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Food system regulators often decide whether to ban existing practices or approve new technologies without conclusive scientific evidence on possible damage and knowing that resolution is likely in the future. In a model with three decision points and stochastic resolution of uncertainty, we...

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Agricultural lenders were surveyed to clarify the problems faced by financially stressed farm borrowers and the appropriate Cooperative Extension Service response in educational programming. Agricultural lenders indicated: (1) financial planning and marketing are skills which need most...

This report summarizes estimated costs of improving pasture by five different systems. For each system, both the initial cost per acre and the annual maintenance cost per acre are presented. In addition, costs of establishing alfalfa or alfalfa-grass hay meadows and annual maintenance costs for...