CAP reform in 2003 including the reduction in subsidies to animal production and the essential changes in the Polish system of direct payments (payments attached to the surface of grasslands and fodder crops, depending on the livestock density in terms feed units per hectare of agricultural land...

Developmental tendencies of the organic farming in Poland in years to 2003-2007 were presented. Benefits from this way of farm management as an alternative to the conventional farming were described. Changes of the number of organic producers, the acreage of the ecological agricultural lands and...

Growth prospects of foreign trade in meat products in Poland and the European Union are presented in the paper. Four scenarios considering different scale of the world agricultural trade liberalization were analysed. Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), a computable general trade equilibrium...

The aim of the research was to estimate the changes in profitability of production of pigs for slaughter. The analysis included data from GUS (Central Statistical Office) and IERiGŻ (Institute of Agricultural Economics and Food Economy), as well as information from farms in Wielkopolska...

In XXI century the predominating sheep product is meat. Limiting production to meat has caused a drastic reduction in sheep population. Lamb meat production in the EU was in 2004 inadequate, because it met demand only in 80%.. After Polish integration with the European Union costs of sale to...

Integrating processes between agriculture and food processing industry have been assessed basing on a study of information, qualifications, extension services in disposition of farmers in the Podkarpacie region in a mountainous southern part of Poland. Surveys of farmers and industrialists have...

This report summarizes the financial and production records of 18 dairy farms across the Upper Peninsula (UP) of Michigan. To be included, the farms must have produced at least 50 percent of gross cash farm income from milk and dairy animal sales. The records came from Michigan State...

This report summarizes the financial and production records of 104 dairy farms from throughout Michigan in 2009. To be included, the farms must have produced at least 50 percent of gross cash farm income from milk and dairy animal sales. The records came from Michigan State University’s...

Marketing and production contracts covered 39 percent of the value of U.S. agricultural production in 2008, up from 36 percent in 2001, and a substantial increase over 28 percent in 1991 and 11 percent in 1969. However, aggregate contract use has stabilized in recent years and no longer suggests...

Small and limited resource farmers and landowners in the Alabama Black Belt region face many challenges as they seek to make their farms and forestlands profitable, productive and environmentally sustainable. A host of problems—farmland conversion, urbanization pressures, reductions in water...