The awareness of animal welfare and animal well-being is growing all over Europe and the world. The concerns are related to the applied policy regimes, economic sustainability of the production methods, food quality and safety, consumers’ health and behaviour and their willingness to pay for...

Este estudo identifica os efeitos de acordos de livre comércio de caráter multilateral (no âmbito da OMC) e regional (ALCA e MERCOSUL-UE) sobre os mercados de carne bovina nas diversas regiões analisadas. Para avaliar os efeitos destas negociações, utilizamos um modelo de alocação...

Poland’s accession to the EU led to rapid adjustments in the Polish food sector. Opening the enormous common European market, with over 450 million consumers, forced the processing industry to face an extreme competition, while creating at the same time an increased outlet opportunity. Customs...

This article tests the efficiency of the hog options market and assesses the impact of the 1996 contract redesign on efficiency. We find that the hog options market is efficient, but some options yielded excess returns during the live hogs period but not during the lean hogs period. Our findings...

In this paper, we show that relaxing credit constraints and increasing access to finance by lifting state-level restrictions on interstate bank expansions from the 1970s through the early 1990s benefited the U.S. agricultural industry by increasing farm sales and profits. In our empirical...

Agricultural primary production is extensively influenced by policies and regulation. On the level of European Union the common agricultural policy (CAP), frames the production environment. This study analyses the conflict of environmental and income policies in the context of CAP reform,...

Az ökológiai gazdálkodás költség-jövedelem viszonyait a hagyományos termeléssel összehasonlítva, modellszámítások alapján vizsgáltuk. A modellépítéshez szükséges adatokat Hortobágy térségében működő egyéni gazdálkodók körében gyűjtöttünk. Az egy hektárra...

Dual-purpose winter wheat (fall-winter forage plus grain) production is an important economic enterprise in the southern Great Plains. Grazing termination to enable grain production is a critical decision. The objective is to determine the optimal grazing termination date for dual-purpose wheat....