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Solvency and Performance of French Wineries in Times of Declining Sales: Co‐operatives and Corporations

Declerck, Francis; Viviani, Jean-Laurent - 2010

The paper assesses the ability of French wineries to prevail over the crisis of French wine in the years 2000.Corporations are distinguished from co‐operatives:Over the 2000‐2006 period in spite of sales fluctuations, French wineries did not increase their financial debtlevel substantially....

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Hog Options: Contract Redesign and Market Efficiency

Urcola, Hernan A.; Irwin, Scott H. - 2010

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 … the newcontract improving the efficiency of the market. However, other market conditions such as lower transaction costs …

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Impact of GE Crop Adoption on Quality-Adjusted Herbicide Use in U.S. Corn Production

Nehring, Richard F.; Martin, Andrew; Fernandez-Cornejo, … - 2011

This paper presents findings on the use of HT corn and quality-adjusted herbicide use for 12 key corn producing states using a panel data set for 1986-2008. Our preliminary findings indicate an insignificant impact of HT corn on herbicide use, conditioning or accounting for HT corn with other...

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Farm Operator Benefits from Direct Marketing Strategies: How Does Local Food Impact Farm Financial Performance?

Park, Timothy A.; Mishra, Ashok K.; Wozniak, Shawn J. - 2011

In the era of a global economy, farmers face increasing pressure in developing a portfolio of various marketing channels. However, the literature on direct marketing strategies has mainly focused on consumers. Using farm-level data this study investigates factors associated with the choice of...

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Price Signals as Indicators of Profitability at Various Stages of Production in Oklahoma Beef

Williams, Brian R.; DeVuyst, Eric A. - 2011

Cow-calf producers face an annual decision on when to sell their calves. They can sell them at any point between weaning and slaughter, with the objective of finding the profit maximizing selling point. This paper investigates the use of price signals to determine profit maximizing selling...

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Optimal Coverage Level Choice with Individual and Area Plans of Insurance

Bulut, Harun; Collins, Keith J.; Zacharias, Thomas P. - 2011

We theoretically examine a farmer’s coverage demand with area and individual insurance plans as either separate or integrated options. The individual and area losses are assumed to be imperfectly and positively correlated. With actuarially fair rates, the farmer will fully insure with the...

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Measuring the poverty impact of ACIAR projects: a broad framework

Pearce, David - 2002

This report sets out some broad ideas about how poverty evaluation could be conducted for ACIAR research projects. As with good benefit–cost analysis, there are good practices that need to be observed when undertaking poverty analysis. While poverty is a broad concept, and can be addressed...

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Market Interactions Between Aquaculture and the Common-Property Commercial Fishery

Anderson, James L. - 1985

competitive case, but impacts on price, fish stock, and efficiency will not be as large. It is shown that there also exist cases …

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An application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to Evaluate Economic Efficiency of Poultry Farms in Bangladesh

Begum, Ismat Ara; Buysse, Jeroen; Alam, Mohammad Jahangir; … - 2009

This study estimates the technical, allocative and economic efficiency obtained from the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA …% respectively. Thus the results indicate that efficiency scores vary substantially across the sampled farms. To explain some of … these variations, the efficiency scores were regressed on the farm’s human capital variables such as farmer’s age, education …

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Exploring production-theoretical insights for analyzing trade-offs between economic performance and environmental pressure at firm level

Van Meensel, Jef; Lauwers, Ludwig H.; Van Huylenbroeck, … - 2009

The objective of this paper is to construct a framework for analyzing trade-offs between economic performance and environmental pressure at firm level. Based on a literature review, partially conflicting economic-environmental trade-off paradigms are structured and five necessary conditions for...

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