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A Capital Budgeting Analysis of Electricity Generation on Egg Farms

Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.; McMahon, Glen - In: Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 12 (1983) 1:

This paper analyzes the economnic feasibility of an investment designed to digest anaerobically cage layer manure and convert biogas into electricity which is sold to a public utility. A simulation model is used to calculate the aftertax net present value (NPV) of a digestion system for eight...

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Greenhouse Energy Conservation: Analysis of Alternative Glass Systems

White, John W.; Beierlein, James G.; Dalke, Peter A. - In: Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 12 (1983) 1:

The economic viability of nine representative energy conservation options for Pennsylvania greenhouse operators is examined . The analysis is done using an Internal Rate of Return procedure for four major fuels under three price escalator assumptions. The minimum energy savings per square f=t...

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Economics of Managing New Zealand Silver Beech for Timber and Carbon

Evison, David; Easdale, Tomas; Mason, Euan; Sewell, Adam - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2012

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Agricultural Impacts of Texas’s Driest Year on Record

Anderson, David P.; Welch, J. Mark; Robinson, John R.C. - In: Choices 27 (2012) 3

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Progress of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy and some emerging issues

Jenkins, Bryan - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2013

This paper reviews the progress to date of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy and identifies key developments and emerging issues. The paper examines the provision of storage, water use efficiency, environmental flow adjustments, nutrients from land use intensification, biodiversity...

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Productivity of heli-logging with the Sikorsky S-61F, S-64E and S-64F in Sarawak

Bigsby, Hugh; Ling, Ling - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2013

Selection logging in the tropics is increasingly moving to systems that reduce the impact of harvesting operations on forests and soils. While much of the focus has been on modifying the tractor logging system using RIL principles, alternative harvesting systems have also been introduced. One of...

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The Welfare Economics of an Excise-Tax Exemption for Biofuels and the Interaction Effects with Farm Subsidies

de Gorter, Harry; Just, David R. - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2007

exemption and the interaction effects with a price contingent farm subsidy. Using U.S. policy as an example, ethanol prices rise … gain from any reduction in world oil prices due to the extra ethanol production. Domestic oil producers lose. Because … increased ethanol production improves the terms of trade in both the export of corn and the import of oil, we determine the …

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Proceedings of the National Conference on Managing Irrigation for Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture in Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan, November 5-7, 1996. Volume I - Inaugurat...

Skogerboe, Gaylord V.; Shafique, M.S. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 1996

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Proceedings of the National Conference on Managing Irrigation for Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture in Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan, 5-7 November 1996. Volume IV - papers on...

Skogerboe, Gaylord V.; Shafique, M.S. - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 1996

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National Water Conference on Status and Future Directions of Water Research in Sri Lanka, BMICH, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 4-6 November 1998. Session 19: Groundwater I; Session 20: Water...

International Water Management Institute (IWMI); … - 1998

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