Emissions of methane from bovine animals have been estimated elsewhere at approximately 60 million tons per year, 15% of global methane releases. This estimate is misleading for two reasons: it ignores the differences in atmospheric residence time between carbon dioxide and methane, and it...

Stochastic dominance was used to group 112 dairy farms based upon 10 years of returns to equity capital. Debt strategies of farms partitioned by first-degree stochastic dominance were similar. Second-degree efficient farms were consistently less indebted. Compared to 1974-1978, debt management...

this paper examines the effects of import quotas and foreign exports subsidies on the size of rents from U.S. cheese imports and their division among importers and exporters. Consumers pay a hefty portion of the wholesale price in rents and tariffs; EC's subsidization of cheese exports to the...