Cattle feeding enterprises operate amid variability originating in prices and production. Thisresearch explicitly models yield risks related to cattle feeding by relating the mean and varianceof yield performance factors to observable conditioning variables. The results demonstratethat pen...

The agricultural economics literature, both academic and trade, has discussed theassumed presence of cycles in livestock markets such as cattle and hogs for a very longtime. Since Jarvis (1974), there has been considerable discussion over how these cyclesimpact optimal economic decision making....

A changing world of increasing complexity, fluctuating prices, high energy costs and limited data necessitate creative blending of economic theory and available empirical statistics to understand the welfare impacts in a specific market. In this paper, a programming approach is used in tandem...

This study estimates the technical, allocative and economic efficiency obtained from the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach using farm level survey data to a sample of 100 poultry farmers in Bangladesh for the year 2007. The results from the DEA approach show that there is substantial...

This paper analyses the development of milk prices and effectiveness of holdings included in particular production category of Farm Accountancy Data Network “411 Milk” and their relations. The influence of prices on profitability, elasticity of production, effectiveness of long-term assets...

We analyzed the existing situation of poultry sector with industrial experts and professionals of “Generating projects based on sector specific innovation in the poultry sector” symposium organized by University of Debrecen Centre for Agricultural Sciences Faculty of Agricultural Business...

This paper uses microlevel data from the Agricultural Resource Management Survey to examine the changes in the distributions of household wealth and to assess the role farm subsidies play, among other factors, in affecting these distributions. The empirical analysis relies on the concept of the...

A helyzetfelmérés eredményeként megállapítható, hogy a magyar baromfi ágazatlegfőbb problémája a nemzetközi versenyképesség romlása. Ennek számos következményelehet, ami közvetlenül vagy közvetve érinti a fenntarthatóság három pillérét,a gazdasági, társadalmi és...

The increasing use of production contracts in the hog sector has reduced the number of spot market transactions, raised concerns about price manipulation and helped to spur legislation requiring price reporting by packers. Using data from the 2002 and 2007 Censuses of Agriculture, this study...

In recent decades there has been a substantial increase in the scale of production and the use of production contracts in the hog sector. This paper explores empirically whether these two phenomena are related by examining whether the use of production contracts has allowed finish hog operations...