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Effects of Increased Environmental Regulation of Manure Management at Livestock Operations: A Differences-in-Differences Approach
Sneeringer, Stacy; Key, Nigel D. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011068893
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An Economic Assessment of Policy Options To Reduce Agricultural Pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay
Ribaudo, Marc; Savage, Jeffrey; Aillery, Marcel P. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2014
In 2010, a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) was established for the Chesapeake Bay, defining the limits on emissions of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment necessary to reverse declines in the Bay’s quality and associated biological resources. Agriculture is the largest single source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098008
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Optimal Regional Policies to Control Manure Nutrients to Surface and Ground Waters
Iho, Antti; Parker, Doug; Zilberman, David - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
, tightening upstream regulation with respect to loading of one nutrient only might increase the downstream loading of the other … importance. Our model contributes to literature by i) differentiating (the impacts of) manure regulation between the livestock …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010915934
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Effects of Environmental Regulation on Economic Activity and Pollution in Commercial Agriculture
Sneeringer, Stacy E. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2009
Research on environmental regulation’s effects on economic activity has largely focused on manufacturing, ignoring one …, regulation has become an important criterion in firm location. This article extends the literature on environmental regulation … creates an opportunity to study how environmental regulation affects the location of economic activity, the externality costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004989160
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Effects of Environmental Regulation on Economic Activity and Pollution in Commercial Agriculture
Sneeringer, Stacy E. - 2009
Research on environmental regulation’s effects on economic activity has largely focused on manufacturing, ignoring one …, regulation has become an important criterion in firm location. This article extends the literature on environmental regulation … creates an opportunity to study how environmental regulation affects the location of economic activity, the externality costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445811
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Livestock farmers’ attitude towards manure separation technology as future strategy
Gebrezgabher, Solomie A.; Lanker, Dora; Meuwissen, … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
In this paper, an ordered probit model is used to assess the factors that affect the probability of livestock farmers having plans to adopt manure separation technology in the future. A survey, based on a postal and computerized questionnaire of representative dairy and pig farms in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201370
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Technical efficiency and environmental pressures of pig farms in Hungary
Latruffe, Laure; Desjeux, Yann; Fogarasi, Jozsef; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
incentives to reduce nitrogen pollution in order to increase their efficiency even in the absence of regulation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201381
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The supermarket revolution and impacts on agricultural labor markets: Empirical evidence from Kenya
Rao, Elizaphan J.O.; Qaim, Matin - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2011
Many developing countries are currently experiencing a rapid expansion of supermarkets. New supermarket procurement systems could have important implications for farming and wider rural development. While previous studies have analyzed farm profit and income effects, possible employment effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201393
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Analysis of some important cost factor of poultry meat production
Szentirmay, Andras - In: Acta Agronomica Ovariensis (2007) 1
Cost efficiency is one of the most important influencing factors of competitiveness in poultry business because the international price competition of poultry meat products is getting tightly year by year. This study would like to open up some property of the cost structure of chicken meat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009201414
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Most frequent bovine diseases in cattle herds in the West-Transdanubian Region
Varga, Noemi; Varallyay, Erika Bertalanne; Salamon, Lajos - In: Acta Agronomica Ovariensis (2009) 1
The political and economical changes in 1989 and 90 influenced Hungary’s agriculture greatly. The transition hit the branches of animal husbandry more than plant growing. Cattle husbandry is one of the most important branches of agriculture in Hungary. Its production is equally important...
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