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6 Mexico is currently limited to 1,885 metric tons of methyl bromide under the Montre...
Cook, R.L., C. Benito, J. Maison, D. Runsten, K.. Shwedel, and T. Taylor. 1991. "Impl...
Sonoran Growers' Association. Various years. Personal communication. Sonora, Mexico. ...
Copyright Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association Apr 2005 Provi...
Using a unique spatial database, a hedonic model is developed to estimate the value t...
Ongoing farmland loss has led county planners to ask "is there a critical mass of far...
THE TOWN of Elizabeth in the hills of West Virginia had a parade yesterday that no on...
Ballast water from commercial ships engaged in international trade has been implicate...
A highly disaggregated emissions factor model is presented. The model generates chang...
Merlinda D. Ingco and John D. Nash (eds.). 2004. Agriculture and the WTO: Creating a ...
The effects of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) agreement on the forest sec...
Yacov Tsur, Terry Roe, Rachid Doukkali, and Ariel Dinar. 2004. Pricing Irrigation Wat...
This study presents evidence that contracting is positively associated with the scale...
Outstanding Master's Thesis Award Costa Rica's Payments for Environmental Services Pr...
NAREA Annual Meetings, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 20-23, 2004 SESSION: Production I. ...
Genetically engineered (GE) soybeans first became available to farmers in 1996. Despi...
It is impossible for me to begin this short talk with anything other than a heartfelt...
In many fisheries around the world, the failures of centralized, top-down management ...
The objective of this paper is to illustrate that economic institutions matter, i.e.,...
Two important new directions in resource and environmental management are increased r...
Recent federal agricultural programs have accelerated the devolution of enterprise ri...
Although the contingent valuation method has been widely used to value a diverse arra...
U.S. county-level net migration data and a general spatial model are used to examine ...
Public preferences for the nonmarket services of permanently preserved agricultural l...
This study assesses the economic and environmental effects to hog finishing farms fro...
This study develops a model to examine the impacts of uncertainty about crop producti...
USDA uses the concept of "publish-ability" rather than statistical reliability of an ...
In the last 20 years, both public and private expenditures on resource conservation a...
The use of emergency, disaster, and other ad hoc sources of income support to America...
Following Weitzman (1974), there is ample theoretical literature indicating that choi...
Many conservation programs under the 2002 Farm Act address resource concerns such as ...
We estimate a system-of-equations model designed to measure the interaction between i...
This study investigates the environmental impacts of several forms of policies that o...
Environmental problems in agriculture have proven difficult to address due to the spa...
The decision to adopt a potentially profitable but unfamiliar conservation technology...
Data on owner and land characteristics are used to analyze factors affecting particip...
This study examines several aspects of the Environmental Horticulture Industry (EHI) ...
Master's Thesis Award of Merit Voluntary transfers are now regarded as a central inst...
Master's Thesis Award of Merit In less than 10 years, 220 dams representing 20% of U....
Automatic, or robotic, milking systems have the potential to significantly change the...
The land grant system is a value-added infrastructure, designed to extend the boundar...
This study extends the joint estimation of revealed and stated preference data litera...
In Japan, a large U.S. export market, there has been growing public opposition agains...
The multifunctional set of services provided by farmland complicates the task of iden...
Hedgers located far from organized commodity exchanges suffer a mismatch between thei...
The USDA's Market Access Program (formerly Market Promotion Program) recently underwe...
Differential property tax policy for farmland is often set under conditions of uncert...
Outstanding Master's Thesis Award Automatic milking systems have the potential to sig...
The New York City Watershed Agricultural Program seeks to reduce the potential for ph...
This study examines the factors that determine the likelihood of submitting a potenti...
Economists increasingly face opportunities to collaborate with ecologists on landscap...
The rural public may not only be concerned with the consequences of land management; ...
Land-use conflicts highlight several myths about property rights. The central myth is...
Competing risks survival analysis is used to investigate tax and zoning policy impact...
This paper jointly models a landowner's decision to develop a parcel and the option t...
This paper analyzes in three contexts the effects of changing economic conditions and...
We investigate what farmland preservation programs reveal about the importance of pro...
A key issue in the design of land use policy is how to integrate information about sp...
In the United States' Northeastern region, there is an increasing interest in the pub...
As many local and state governments in the United States grapple with increasing grow...
This study models the effects of variability in farm income and off-farm wages on far...
Because of public health concerns, regulators are considering requiring post-harvest ...
Technical efficiency for cotton growers is examined using both stochastic (SFA) and n...
Conjoint analysis is used to evaluate consumer preferences for three consumer-ready p...
The financial performance and relationships between several management factors and fi...
Numerous studies have investigated how farmers should use forward pricing markets, bu...
The 2002 Farm Act is used as a case study of three problematic considerations related...
Imports of milk protein concentrates (MPCs) are increasingly entering the United Stat...
Communities in most states are under pressure to reduce the amount of solid waste goi...
The objective of this analysis was to identify the production practices used by farme...
Data on costs and benefits of the major environmental laws passed during the 1970s ar...
Controversy over the use of genetically engineered (GE) crops may have induced some f...
This study examines the effectiveness of price versus nonprice promotion programs for...
U.S. soybean producers have been cooperatively investing in both production research ...
Using farm data from three dairy-dependent communities in Wisconsin, this study addre...
The method of computing wealth shares accruing to lowest and highest quintiles, along...
Consumption of lowfat and skim milk has increased substantially over the past decade....
Policy makers often face the problem of evaluating how water quality affects a region...
The number of meat recalls has increased markedly in recent years. This research exam...
Selfishness of preferences alone will not support the coordination necessary for the ...
Since 1986, sugar's share of total consumption of caloric sweeteners has remained con...
Changing lifestyles also affect consumption and trade patterns. As consumers demand ...
Large meat-producing countries are often also engaged significantly in trade--both as...
Export data for 1968-73 indicate that as the share of Chile's exports of apples and t...
The direction of Poland's sugar policy will depend largely on the new government, jus...
Within a very few years, improved management practices will likely be forced on farme...
Livestock farms are continuing to feel the effects of lower prices over the past 2 or...
With world carryover of wheat forecast off nearly 11 percent from last year and with ...
In this third of a five-part series, AO explores the linkages between the U.S. and Me...
Beef supplies are expected to increase for at least the next several years. The curr...
Although North and South Korea have been divided since World War II, Korean nationali...
The deepening food crisis in the former Soviet republics cannot be explained simply b...
From 1975 to 1988, the U.S. economy added 36 million jobs, boosting the number of emp...
International trade reflects complementary relationships between trade partners that ...
While the egg industry has enjoyed several years of favorable returns, 1992 will be a...
Tight U.S. wheat stocks - the result of reduced acres and yields, and expanding expor...
Data reported in the Winter Wheat and Rye Seedings reports on January 10 caught many ...
Following some revival in the spring of 1991, improvement in the economy largely halt...
What will the labor market look like in 2007? Will overall employment rise more or le...
Fresh orange prices are expected to inch lower through the spring as California growe...
Until 2 years ago, the U.S. rice industry looked to the export market for much of its...
The financial condition of agricultural lenders continued to improve in 1991, and add...
Much of the world's attention in the past 2 years has focused on the political and ec...
The broiler industry continue to expand after 8 consecutive years of profitability. O...
The outlook for farm input consumption and expenditures in 1992 will be shaped by mod...
U.S. feed grain production in 1991/92 is down more than 5 percent from the previous y...
Both production and consumption of U.S. sugar appear to be on the rise. Production fo...
The latter part of the 1980's saw U.S. agriculture improving each years as recovery f...
Assuming no changes to the dairy provisions of the 1990 farm legislation and a gradua...
Grain production, consumption, and trade patterns are undergoing major changes in man...
The U.S. aquaculture industry is expected to continue growing throughout the 1990's, ...
Forecasts for 1992 farm financial indicators reveal a moderate rate of growth in the ...
The world economy is changing as markets become international. New production technol...
The prosperity of U.S. agriculture in 1992 and beyond will continue to depend signifi...
Over the past 7 to 8 years, grower prices for fruit and vegetables, especially fruit,...
Greenhouse and nursery agriculture continues to outpace all other major commodity sec...
Favorable returns for cow-calf operators and ample forage are stimulating the beef co...
The 1991/1992 estimated U.S. wheat crop is the second smallest since 1978. A combinat...
In 1991, U.S. oilseed producers turned out the largest soybean crop in 6 years, the l...
World cotton supply and demand developments during the late 1980's were highlighted b...
Severe insect damage to winter fresh broccoli, cauliflower, and lettuce in California...
Moderate increases in most food categories in 1992 are likely to raise average food p...
World coarse grain production is expected down 4 percent in 1991/1992, with a 5-perce...
The U.S. continues to counter price subsidies in global markets with the Export Enhan...
On November 28,1990, President Bush signed the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and T...
Concluding a two-part series, AO looks at the transition to market-oriented agricultu...
In many respects the U.S. and Mexico have little in common besides their border. Per ...
The turkey industry enters the fourth quarter not only with record supplies, but also...
The U.S. produces nearly 40 percent and consumers on average 35 percent of the world'...
The Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, known as Farmer Mac, was chartered by ...
The 1990 farm legislation initiated a "maximum payment acreage," limiting program par...
As of September 1,lower grain supplies and declining hog prices have not discouraged ...
Each year, farmers confront the threat of poor weather conditions. This year, some fa...
Initial orange production forecast for 1991/92 show California beginning to recover f...
Farm-raised fish and shellfish production in the U.S. was estimated at 860 million po...
The U.S. hog industry is being reshaped by changes in both supply and demand. On the ...
In the popular image, wetlands are sun-glinted shallows with cattails swaying and duc...
The changes taking place in the Central and East European countries (CEE's) are remar...
This summer's adverse weather is likely to result in tighter U.S. ending stocks of fe...
The 1991/92 marketing year will see changes in EC policies affecting grains and oilse...
Processing tomato production is likely to approach 1990's record 10.4 million tons. ...
Tough challenges face the U.S. cotton and textile industries. The world is rebuilding...
Prospects for 1991 farm incomes have improved since midsummer, but are still forecast...
Fed cattle marketings are expected to remain above a year earlier at least through Oc...
Sugar cane acreage and production in Hawaii are decreasing. Major factors contributin...
In fiscal 1991, high-value product (HVP) exports exceeded bulk exports, a development...
The three articles that follow look at the U.S farm sector as a whole as well as two ...
A dualistic distribution is emerging in agriculture, revealing growth in the number o...
On the domestic front, the adverse conditions affecting corn and soybean production p...
USDA has tentatively accepted 1.1 million additional cropland acres into the Conserva...
The U.S. economy is recovering from the recession that began in July 1990. Although r...
Broad consensus among nutrition authorities now exists on the dietary patterns that p...
Prospective harvested area for fresh vegetables suggests summer supplies comparable t...
The U.S. sugar program does more than support the price of U.S. sugarcane and sugarbe...
A national panel of 450 rural real estate appraisers surveyed in July expects U.S. fa...
The U.S. economy appears to be recovering from the recent recession. By the end of Ju...
Marketing costs, the major component of food prices, have risen from 69 to 76 percent...
Dry conditions in the U.S., particularly in the easterns Corn Belt, stressed the corn...
The removal of ecologically fragile farmland from crop production, encouraged under t...
The July 1 beef cow and beef replacement heifer inventories were up 2 and 4 percent f...
The value of total USSR imports was cut by nearly 50 percent during the first half of...
During the past decade, several factors have made U.S. food and agricultural enterpri...
When the period of sustained employment growth that began in 1983 ended in 1990, rura...
Forecast food price increases of 2-4 percent in 1991 are far more moderate than the 5...
Beginning with the 1991/92 Canadian crop year, Canada's Gross Revenue Insurance Plan ...
Most fresh-fruit prices in the U.S. are likely to be up this summer from a year ago. ...
International markets provide important direct and indirect outlets for the U.S. fert...
Congress is considering several proposal that could radically restructure the U.S. Ba...
The government of Mexico is embarked on a course of unilateral economic reform, reve...
Crop production is the primary use of the vast U.S. agricultural land base, with catt...
The pork industry is set for an expansion in production during the second half of 199...
Just over a year ago, major fast food restaurants announced they would substitute veg...
Weather conditions and changes in farm programs have had considerable impact on farme...
Farmers, rural business, and policymakers are looking to alternative crops to diversi...
Second-quarter data strongly suggest that the recession ended sometime in April or Ma...
Dairy policy is again in the spotlight. The 1990 farm bill required USDA to submit a ...
Fed cattle marketings are expected to rise through the third quarter due to the large...
In 1990, U.A. sheep numbers and wool production accounted for only 1 percent of the w...
Farmers' cash receipts are unlikely to top 1990's record, and government payments are...
Continuing water shortages in California are confronting farmers with additional cuts...
Market returns are becoming more important for U.S. producers. Under the 190 farm leg...
The pace of U.S. dry bean exports is expected to slacken from a year earlier in the l...
Developing countries have an important stake in the European Community's (EC) 1992 si...
Despite tremendous rains in March, irrigation water supply shortages continue for Cal...
The U.S. government is developing new nutrition labeling guidelines for foods, which ...
Although below expectations, U.S. cattle slaughter is increasing. Prices of fed cattl...
Strong recovery from the freeze damage incurred in December 1989 is enhancing prospec...
This issue of Agricultural Outlook presents USDA's first forecasts for the year 1991/...
Peanut farmers are planting this year's crop under circumstances unlike any they've e...
With a growing gap in agricultural productivity between the richest and poorest count...
World production and trade in greenhouse and nursery products continue to grow. World...
In both the U.S. and Canada through the first quarter, suppliers of pork were down, a...
U.S. farmland values in 1991 are forecast to increase 1-3 percent from a year earlier...