This article reviews economic and accounting bases for costs-of-production (COP) calculations It finds that the problems of circularity of arguments, potential cost� price spirals, and escalating land values are Inherent m all full COP methods of setting support prices Inflation, Income tax...

Many of the operational macroeconomic models examined either ignore or treat the agricultural sector as exogenous When the sector is treated as endogenous, it is most likely structurally misspecified and/or too small to provide much information about agriculture Given the increased awareness...

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...

A simulation ir!octel developed from regression estimates of fa-.rm ~ector sources and uses of. funds is llsed to project a farm income statement, balance sheet, and sources-and-uscs-of-funds statement to 1980. Projection results suggest that (a) total assets in the farm sector may total morc...

Two approaches, a flexible accelerator model and a stochastic coefficients alternative, are used to estimate the structure of aggregate agricultural investment. Structural estimates of the adjustment rates for each model are similar. The stochastic coefficients model, however, performs better in...

U.S. agricultural exports fell 9 percent, a $2.8-billion decline, during the first 9 months of fiscal year 1991. U.S. agricultural imports totaled $17.3 billion for October-June, up just $22 million from last year at this time.

U.S. farm exports remained sluggish during the first 9 months of fiscal year. 1983, 16 percent below those of a year earlier. U.S. imports of agricultural products during October-June 1982/83 rose 6 percent above similar months the previous year to $12.4 billion. Appreciation of the U.S. dollar...

With nearly half of the fiscal year completed, exports were $2.4 billion higher in 1992...U.S. agricultural imports rose slightly during the first 5 months of 1992, increasing) percent to $9.8 billion... The exported share of. U.S. production fell to an estimated 16 percent in FY 1991. .. During...