Studies on the optimal use of pesticides, their disposal, and effects are presented. Papers include: Financing the Disposal of Unwanted Agricultural Pesticides, Lewell F. Gunter and Terence Centner, University of Georgia. Determinants of Pesticide Registration for Food Crops, Claude Courbois,...

This is a potpourri of price analyses involving developed, developing and transition economies. Papers included in this session: Dynamics of Polish Wheat Prices in Comparison to Selected World Prices in a Period of Economic Transformation, Szczepan Figiel, Olsztyn University of Agriculture and...

The persistence and widening of the rural-urban earning gap represents a continuing empirical puzzle. Using county-level data, we estimate a fixed-effects empirical model of earnings response that differentiates the impacts of schooling, unemployment shocks and macroeconomic forces on per capita...

A multiple organic pollutant simulation/optimization model is developed to aid policy analysis of least cost approaches to wastewater management. Downstream impacts vary non-linearly with pollution loads due to non-linear constituent interactions. An iterative solution method is necessary. The...

Consumption of seafood products in Spain has increased recently. Data from a nationally representative household budget survey are used. A double-hurdle model, applied to expenditures on fresh and processed seafood, shows the value of women's time, income and demographics to be determinants of...

This paper models backward integration by processing cooperatives into raw product production. Our analysis demonstrates that a cooperative's incentive to acquire raw product production capacity depends on its ability to restrict member production to optimal levels and the relationship between...

Microeconomic studies often make two assumptions: 1) producers focus on profit maximization, disregarding "external" environmental and health costs; and 2) producers have full information about their production processes and markets. This study examines whether these assumptions are valid for...

The impacts of Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) on social welfare are investigated using data from the Senegalese peanut sector. The findings suggest that SAP policies resulted in dramatic decreases in peanut production, undermining the profitability of the peanut processing plants as well....

A "hybrid" spatial price equilibrium model is developed to evaluate differences in trade flows and equilibrium prices for feed and malting barley exports from the U.S., Canada, Australia, and European Union, caused by the U.S. Export Enhancement Program (EEP). The analysis incorporates the...

We explore the transfer of poultry litter among watersheds incorporating both economic and environmental characteristics, and using a goal focusing approach. The results should be useful to producers and policy makers in the study area and in other areas where poultry production is linked to...