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Calculating Cost Of Production; Livestock: 1991 Revisisted And 1992 Forecast, John Cole, Burton Pflueger, Gene Murra

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

An Economic Analysis Of The 1990-1991 South Dakota Retained Ownership Demonstration; Soviet Republics And Grain Prices, Dillon Feuz, John Wagner, Richard Shane

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

Planetor: Review And Application, John Cole, Burton Pflueger

Economics Staff Paper Series

Farmers are becoming increasingly aware of the environmental consequences of farming practices that have become "conventional" over the last 30 to 40 years. As agricultural producers, they are expressing concern about erosion, ground water contamination, and personal health considerations from chemical use. At the same time, farmers are concerned about the economic viability of their operations. Farmers cannot afford to sacrifice net farm incomes in order to meet stricter environmental regulations. A new software package named Planetor has been developed that can be used to examine the interrelationship between economic sustainability and environmental safety. Researchers working on the Big Sioux …

Urbanization And Food Imports In Sub-Saharan Africa, James Tabi, Wayne H. Howard, Truman Phillips

Agribusiness

The Granger statistical test of causality was used to examine the relationship between total food imports and urbanization and between food aid and urbanization. Urbanization appears to have caused total food imports to increase in 13 of the 24 countries. Food imports appear to be a cause of urbanization in three countries. Food aid, however, apparently was a cause of urbanization in 16 of the 24 countries used in the analysis.

B834: An Economic Analysis Of Crops Grown In Rotation With Potatoes In Aroostook County, Maine, John V. Westra, Kevin J. Boyle

Bulletins

This bulletin examines rotations of potatoes with alternative crops to identify net revenue-maximizing rotations in Aroostook County, Maine.

Sales And Property Tax Contributions Of South Dakota Agriculture: 1990, Martin K. Beutler

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

Oilseed Outlook; Fed And Feeder Cattle Situation And Outlook, Richard Shane, Dillion M. Feuz

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

Citrin, Daniel: "Agricultural Policies In Japan And Their Economic Consequences". World Economic And Financial Surveys, Imf Staff Studies, September, 1990, Pp. 53 - 63., F. C. Agu

Economic and Financial Review

The 11-page paper reviews the main policies that have been applied to support Japanese agriculture, the costs as well as· the benefits. The rice crop is accorded pre-eminence because of its importance in the country's agriculture.

Crop Production Management In South Dakota: Lisa Farmers Compared To Farmers In General, Donald Taylor, David Becker, John Cole, Thomas L. Dobbs

Economics Staff Paper Series

This paper summarizes (1) five main contrasts in crop production management between LISA and conventional farmers in South Dakota and (2) reactions of panels of LISA farmers, conventional farmers, and other key informants to the existence of and explanations for apparent contrasts, between LISA farmers and farmers in general, in their respective crop production practices.

B835: Landfills And Municpal Solid Waste In Maine, George K. Criner, John M. Halstead, Elizabeth Curtin, Steven C. Deller

Bulletins

Municipal leaders need current information about alternative disposal methods to make rational decisions on handling their town's waste. To provide an overview of landfilling and other waste-handling methods used in the upper New England states, a group of university researchers from New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont initiated a study of landfills and solid waste management practices. The study involved a comprehensive mail survey of municipalities in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. This report focuses upon and discusses the results of the landfill and solid waste management survey for Maine.

B833: A Residential Waste Stream Analysis: Orono, Maine, 1990, George K. Criner, Steven L. Jacobs, Chet A. Rock

Bulletins

George Criner and Chet Rock of the University of Maine, and students from their Waste Management class analyzed household wastes from 33 residences in Orono. The purpose of the analysis was to obtain an estimate of total weekly residential waste weight and its composition by category (paper versus glass, etc.).

Monitoring And Controlling Mastitis On Ontario Dairy Farms, Wayne H. Howard, Ravinderpal Gill, Kenneth E. Leslie, Kerry Lissemore

Agribusiness

The frequency of use and the marginal costs and marginal value products of mastitis control practices on somatic cell count (SCC) and milk yield are investigated. A survey of current management practices is combined with Dairy Herd Improvement production information to determine the relationships between milk yield, SCC, management practices, and production and producer characteristics under field conditions. The relationships are modeled and compared at the cow and herd level. A moment-generating approach is used in the herd model to determine which, if any, practices are risk reducing. The SCC for an individual cow is a better indicator of milk …

Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Developments 1990-91, Bruce B. Johnson

Nebraska Farm Real Estate Reports

Agricultural land values rose 4 percent during 1990, although the pattern varied widely across the state. The annual increase represented the fourth straight year of increase according to the University of Nebraska annual Farm Real Estate Market Survey series; yet the 1991 average value remained at about two-thirds of the peak value recorded 10 years earlier.

Largest percentage gains in value were reported in the Central Crop Reporting District where the all-land average rose 10 percent. In contrast, the Southeast District recorded a slight decline in the all-land average.

By type of land, grazing land values usually showed the largest …

Impacts Of Rising Energy Prices On The Attractiveness Of Sustainable Farming Systems, Thomas Dobbs, John Cole

Economics Staff Paper Series

After several years of relatively stable energy prices during the middle-and late-1980s, events of late-1990 in the Middle East reawakened concerns about rising energy prices. Between July 1990, prior to Iraq's August invasion of Kuwait, and October 1990, diesel fuel prices increased by 77 percent. Natural gas, a major factor of production in urea fertilizer, also experienced price increases last fall in the aftermath of Iraq's invasion. Urea prices were affected by these higher natural gas prices. Moreover, Iraq and Kuwait supplied 7 percent of the world's urea prior to last fall and also provided fuel oil for fertilizer plants …

Central Bank Of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin, June 1991, Central Bank Of Nigeria

CBN Statistical Bulletin

The financial statistics section offers comprehensive data on various financial subsectors, including money and banking, financial markets, non-bank financial institutions, and public finance statistics. Key areas covered include data consolidation of commercial and merchant banks, liquidity ratios, cash reserves, loan/deposit ratios, and credit distribution. Clearing house statistics provide information on volume of transactions within the commercial banking system and the number and value of cheques cleared. Financial markets provide information on new issues, treasury securities, money market assets, Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) transactions, and government debt instruments. Public finance statistics include federal government revenue and expenditure, sources such as oil, …

Women In Agriculture: Balancing Family And Farm: Summary Of The 1991 Conference, Rebecca Lafferty, Burton Pflueger

Economics Staff Paper Series

The success of the first "Women in Agriculture" conference, entitled "Challenging The Future", has the South Dakota Cooperative Extension Service to develop the second program entitled "Balancing Family and Farm". The first conference was designed to provide women with the incentive to challenge the future of agriculture while the second conference was designed to help women learn how to balance their family life with the business of farming or ranching. The second "Women in Agriculture" (WIA) conference was held in Pierre, South Dakota in March, 1991. The overall goal of the conference was to provide women with an opportunity to …

Effects Of Including Alfalfa In Whole-Farm Plans: Comparison Of Conventional, Ridge Till, And Alternative Farming Systems, Clarence Mends, Thomas Dobbs

Economics Staff Paper Series

South Dakota State University (SDSU) has been conducting research trials since 1985 at its Northeast Research Station (near Watertown, S.D. ) to compare various conventional , reduced tillage , and low chemical input ("alternative") farming systems . In one set of comparisons, Conventional and Ridge Till systems consisting of rotated corn, soybeans , and spring wheat are compared with an Alternative (no purchased chemical input) system consisting of rotated oats , alfalfa , soybeans, and corn. The alfalfa is just harvested one year (the year after under seeding in oats) in this system . Economics results for the first 5 …

Family Farms: Farming Shaping Their Future, Larry Janssen

Economics Staff Paper Series

We are living in times of rapid change in agriculture and in rural America. Interstate highways, livestock confinement systems, pesticides, fourwheel drive tractors and personal computers are innovations that did not exist or were seldom seen 30 - 35 years ago. Rural America has changed a great deal from the time I was raised on a 320 acre Nebraska farm, driving 25 hp. Ford SN tractors, and going to a one-room country school! In times of rapid changes, many people are concerned about the future of agriculture and family farms. Today, I will share with you my perspectives on the …

Tailwater Recovery Demonstration Program Study, Doug Welch, Tim O'Halloran, Stuart Styles

BioResource and Agricultural Engineering

No abstract provided.

Multimarket Amenity Compensation And The Behavior Of The Elderly, Philip E. Graves, Donald M. Waldman

PHILIP E GRAVES

There is no abstract for this work.

North Dakota Farm Women And Their Roles In The Family: Are They Changing?, Debra Pankow, Sheila Mammen, Margaret Fitzgerald

Sheila Mammen

No abstract provided.

Marketing Margins, Market Power, And Price Uncertainty, John Schroeter, Azzeddine Azzam

Azzeddine Azzam

This paper provides a conceptual and empirical framework for analyzing marketing margins in a noncompetitive food-processing industry facing output price uncertainty. The framework allows for the decomposition of observed margins into components reflecting the marginal cost of the processing industry, oligopoly/oligopsony price distortions, and an output price risk component. The empirical procedure is applied to a time series of spreads between wholesale pork prices and farm prices of market hogs. The principal finding is that, while farm/wholesale margins are more consistent with competitive performance now than they were fifteen years ago, the output price risk component persisted throughout the sample …

Efficient Spatial Allocation Of Irrigation Water, Ujjayant N. Chakravorty, James Roumasset

Ujjayant Chakravorty

In the presence of conveyance losses, the efficient quantity of water applied falls with distance from the water source, but the amount of water "sent" (including conveyance losses) actually increases with distance from the source, except toward the tail end of the irrigation system. This implies that if marginal cost pricing were implemented, farmers at the middle and lower reaches of the system would have to pay more money for less water received. The model is illustrated and alternative financing schemes compared for an empirically derived demand function for irrigation water.