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De Maíz Vivo” La Siembra De Maíz En La Sierra Norte De Oaxaca, Holly Kingsbury Oct 2005

De Maíz Vivo” La Siembra De Maíz En La Sierra Norte De Oaxaca, Holly Kingsbury

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Cuando uno se acerca al pueblo de Guelatao de Juárez en la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca, México, al pasar el Río Grande se puede ver donde el huracán Stan destruyó muchas milpas. No obstante, es probable que esas milpas, y otras que se ve en el camino, estuvieran abandonadas mucho antes de que el huracán las tocó. En la Sierra Norte y en todo México, esas milpas representaron y todavía representan la vida y alimentación básica de los mexicanos: el maíz. El estadounidense común piensa que el maíz existe en una forma: lo que vemos sembrado en miles de hectáreas …

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Women In Agriculture: Making The Critical Difference, Meg Klosterman Kester Sep 2005

Women In Agriculture: Making The Critical Difference, Meg Klosterman Kester

Cornhusker Economics

In 2002 the Census of Agriculture reported the total number of farm operators was 70,668. Nearly 16,000 of those operators were women, representing 22.5 percent of all operators. Over 3,000 women were designated as principal operators, representing over 6 percent of Nebraska’s 49,355 farms. Because women play a significant role in farm operation in the state, the Women in Agriculture program has grown and flourished over the past 21 years.

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Cull Cow Marketing, Dillon Feuz Sep 2005

Cull Cow Marketing, Dillon Feuz

Cornhusker Economics

Every year, about this time of year it seems that someone asks me to speak about cull cow marketing. The date they want me to speak is generally the week before Thanksgiving. The problem with that talk then, is I am always a couple of months late with my advice. So I am getting my advice out early, or perhaps I should say on time, this year. Cull cow sales likely account for 20-25 percent of gross revenue on most cow-calf ranches. It is therefore worth considering different cull cow marketing strategies.

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Rural Depopulation: A Closer Look At Nebraska’S Counties And Communities, Randolph L. Cantrell Sep 2005

Rural Depopulation: A Closer Look At Nebraska’S Counties And Communities, Randolph L. Cantrell

Rural Initiative Program: Publications and Reports

There is no question about it; rural population loss and Metropolitan concentration continue to be important factors in shaping social and economic conditions in much of America’s Great Plains region. Despite widespread population increases throughout much of nonmetropolitan America during the 1990s, the rural Great Plains has remained an area of persistent decline (Johnson and Beale, 1998 and 2001). Declining populations have characterized many Great Plains counties since the early 1900s, and the trend has continued with few exceptions through the most recent census in 2000. In fact, for some Great Plains counties, the rate of population decline has actually …

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Farm Bill Forum, Husker Harvest Days, Grand Island, Nebraska, Mike Johanns Sep 2005

Farm Bill Forum, Husker Harvest Days, Grand Island, Nebraska, Mike Johanns

Department of Agricultural Economics: News, Announcements, and Information

Transcript of NEBRASKA FARM BILL FORUM WITH AGRICULTURE SECRETARY MIKE JOHANNS AND MODERATORS SUSAN LITTLEFIELD, KZEN FARM NET, KEN RAHJES OF KRVN AND EMERY KLEVEN OF KOYL AT THE HUSKER HARVEST DAYS IN GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA ON SEPTEMBER 15, 2005

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Retail Patterns Across Nebraska, A 10-Year Perspective, Aaron C. Raymond, Bruce B. Johnson Sep 2005

Retail Patterns Across Nebraska, A 10-Year Perspective, Aaron C. Raymond, Bruce B. Johnson

Cornhusker Economics

Retail activity is very dynamic and highly variable, across both time and space. We have been following total retail activity, using taxable retail sales from the Nebraska Department of Revenue as a proxy for many years. Over time, we have witnessed the continuing trend towards increasing concentration of retail activity in the larger trade centers and urban communities, and away from rural and small trade centers. While state sales tax data provides some clear perspectives on overall changes and trends, even down to town and county levels, details as to the specific type of retail activity is precluded.

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Brazil And Its Role In Global Agriculture, H. Douglas Jose Sep 2005

Brazil And Its Role In Global Agriculture, H. Douglas Jose

Cornhusker Economics

The themes which have been applied to Brazilian agriculture include “a growing agricultural giant,” and “the future of modern agriculture.” I had the opportunity to visit Brazil and observe some of their agriculture first hand in August. There is always a danger of making general observations based on limited time in a country and a limited area covered. But this two-week visit left me with some observations to consider as we think about the structure of global agriculture in the future.

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Martino Of Como And Stefania Barzini. The Art Of Cooking: The First Modern Cookery Book, Ken Albala Sep 2005

Martino Of Como And Stefania Barzini. The Art Of Cooking: The First Modern Cookery Book, Ken Albala

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

No abstract provided.

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Green Revolutions And Miracle Economies: Agricultural Innovation, Trade And Growth, Brishti Guha Sep 2005

Green Revolutions And Miracle Economies: Agricultural Innovation, Trade And Growth, Brishti Guha

Research Collection School Of Economics

The purpose of this paper is to develop a simple model of an economy in which growth is driven by a combination of exogenous technical change in agriculture as well as by a rising world demand for labor-intensive manufactured exports. We explore the relative roles of agricultural innovation and rising export demand in a model with two traded industrial goods and a non-traded agricultural good, food. When the non-traded sector uses a specific factor, we show that technical change in agriculture may be the key to sustained factor accumulation in industry, in particular driving intersectoral labor migration. A key assumption …

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Appeals Court Rules Cattle Marketing Agreements Are Not Anti-Competitive, J. David Aiken Aug 2005

Appeals Court Rules Cattle Marketing Agreements Are Not Anti-Competitive, J. David Aiken

Cornhusker Economics

Traditionally cattle have been purchased for cash prices on the open market, at livestock auctions or directly from cattle producers. Cattle buyers from meatpackers negotiate with feedlot operators to purchase pens of cattle, attempting to estimate the average quality that the cattle will yield on the spot. Feedlot operators consider bids from competing packers and then decide which offer to accept. Cattle are delivered seven days from the date of the purchase.

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Labor Issues In Nebraska Feedyards, Rik R. Smith, Darrell R. Mark Aug 2005

Labor Issues In Nebraska Feedyards, Rik R. Smith, Darrell R. Mark

Cornhusker Economics

Cattle feeders in Nebraska employ significant labor resources to care for and manage the two million cattle on feed in Nebraska. With an average of about one employee for every thousand head of cattle fed, that translates to around 2,000 jobs for rural economies in Nebraska.

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The Land Market And 1031 Exchanges, Glenn A. Helmers Aug 2005

The Land Market And 1031 Exchanges, Glenn A. Helmers

Cornhusker Economics

Nebraska agricultural land values have increased nearly 50 percent in the past decade. To many observers this increase is much greater than would be expected based on crop profitability. Increasingly it is mentioned that the Section 1031 Exchange provision of the Internal Revenue Code is an important element leading to increased land values. This provision provides for tax deferral of the capital gain tax if an exchange occurs with like-kind property. The 1031 provision was enacted in 1984 by limiting the scope of the Starker Court decision of 1979. In 1991 IRS issued regulations regarding procedures of 1031 Exchanges. Section …

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New Domestic Production Deduction, Tina N. Barrett Aug 2005

New Domestic Production Deduction, Tina N. Barrett

Cornhusker Economics

At this time last year we didn’t think we would see a new piece of tax legislation in 2004 and October brought us two of the largest bills in recent history. The second of the two was the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004. The fuel behind this bill was largely related to the Extra-Territorial Income Exclusion Act (ETI) of 2000 that had been deemed “inconsistent with international trade agreements” by the World Trade Organization. This had been a tax preference for strictly exporters, which is why the WTO had a problem. While the new law called for a three …

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What Price The Moral High Ground In A Competitive Economic Environment?, Gary D. Lynne Aug 2005

What Price The Moral High Ground In A Competitive Economic Environment?, Gary D. Lynne

Cornhusker Economics

A recent book by Robert Frank (2004), a well-known researcher and writer on the nature of our economic nature, points to how the business world appears to be in the grip of “infectious greed” attributing this phrase to Alan Greenspan, the current U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman. Greenspan has also said it is “not that humans have become more greedy than in generations past,” but rather that “the avenues to express greed have grown so enormously (quoted by Frank, 2004, p. vii).” So, apparently in the minds of the business community, perhaps even in our own agribusiness and farming communities, many …

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The Effect Of Wal-Mart On The Economic Growth Of Nebraska Counties, Gibson Nene Aug 2005

The Effect Of Wal-Mart On The Economic Growth Of Nebraska Counties, Gibson Nene

Rural Initiative Program: Publications and Reports

Wal-Mart is the largest corporation in the world operating 3600 stores in the US and 1150 stores in other countries. With its highly automated distribution system, Wal-Mart has dominated the retail industry in the US becoming the largest employer and realizing higher sales than any other retail corporation in recent years. There are claims that the store has created benefits for consumers in the form of low prices, a wide assortment of products under one roof and employment opportunities and that communities have also benefited from Wal-Mart in the form of its involvement in charity and infrastructure.

Despite its market …

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Basis Risk Reduction With Lrp Insurance, Rik R. Smith, Darrell R. Mark Jul 2005

Basis Risk Reduction With Lrp Insurance, Rik R. Smith, Darrell R. Mark

Cornhusker Economics

Livestock Risk Protection Insurance (LRP) is a pilot program from the USDA-Risk Management Agency (RMA) that provides minimum price protection for fed cattle, feeder cattle and swine producers. The program works like a put option in that a minimum price is established, but if prices increase producers can benefit from the increase. Producers pay a premium in exchange for this price insurance, which is available from licensed crop insurance agents.

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An Examination Of Additively Separable Willingness-To-Pay For Environmental Attributes: Evidence From A Pork Experiment, Sean P. Hurley, James B. Kliebenstein Jul 2005

An Examination Of Additively Separable Willingness-To-Pay For Environmental Attributes: Evidence From A Pork Experiment, Sean P. Hurley, James B. Kliebenstein

Agribusiness

This paper examines what is the best method for pork producers to market pork products with environmental attributes. The objective is to examine evidence of whether it is beneficial for pork producers to incorporate multiple environmental attributes into a single product or sell multiple products with a single environmental attribute.

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Determining The Impact Of Food Price And Income Changes On Obesity, Christiane Schroeter, Jayson Lusk, Wallace Tyner Jul 2005

Determining The Impact Of Food Price And Income Changes On Obesity, Christiane Schroeter, Jayson Lusk, Wallace Tyner

Agribusiness

Despite the significant rise in obesity in the U.S., economic research on obesity is still in its infancy. This paper employs a microeconomic approach to investigate the effects of price and income changes on weight in an effort to determine how a high-calorie food tax, a low-calorie food subsidy, and/or income changes affect body weight. Although raising the price of high-calorie food will likely lead to decreased demand for such goods; it is not clear that such an outcome will actually reduce weight. The model developed in this paper identifies conditions under which price and income changes are mostly likely …

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The Effect Of Cooperatives On Innovation, Konstantinos Giannakas Jul 2005

The Effect Of Cooperatives On Innovation, Konstantinos Giannakas

Cornhusker Economics

Innovation activity is a critical element of business conduct affecting the competitiveness of firms, the arrival rate of innovations in the economy, productivity growth and social welfare. The strategic interactions among firms and their effect on innovation have received considerable attention in the economic literature with the main focus being on innovation competition in a pure oligopoly – i.e., a market in which a small number of profit-maximizing, investorowned firms (IOFs) operate.

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Dry Beans As A Farm Program Commodity: Is This A Good Idea?, Paul Burgener Jul 2005

Dry Beans As A Farm Program Commodity: Is This A Good Idea?, Paul Burgener

Cornhusker Economics

With the inclusion of soybeans in the direct payment program and chickpeas, dry peas and lentils in the marketing loan program under the 2002 Farm Act, the question of whether or not to push for inclusion of dry beans in the 2007 legislation has been posed. There are a number of factors that need to be considered before making a major lobbying effort to get dry beans included in the 2007 Farm Bill. The key points will be discussed here.

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Water Marketing: The New Frontier In Nebraska Water Law, J. David Aiken Jul 2005

Water Marketing: The New Frontier In Nebraska Water Law, J. David Aiken

Cornhusker Economics

Water marketing refers to the buying and selling of water rights. Typically, in many western states cities purchase water rights from farmers, because no unappropriated water is available. The water right transfer must be approved by the State Engineer to make sure that other water right holders are not harmed by the sale. Typically, the buyer receives only the amount of water consumed in the original use (e.g. irrigation), not the entire quantity of water allowed under the original water right.

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Estimating The Impacts Of Differing Price-Risk Management Strategies On The Net Income Of Salinas Valley Lettuce Producers: A Stochastic Simulation Approach, Roland Fumasi, Wayne H. Howard, Jay E. Noel Jul 2005

Estimating The Impacts Of Differing Price-Risk Management Strategies On The Net Income Of Salinas Valley Lettuce Producers: A Stochastic Simulation Approach, Roland Fumasi, Wayne H. Howard, Jay E. Noel

Agribusiness

While government safety-net programs are used to mitigate the price risk for commodity producers, limited programs exist for specialty crop producers. Specialty crop producers utilize forward contracts to reduce downside price risk. In order to estimate the method of price-risk management, if any, that is preferable to selling at market determined prices, a stochastic simulation model was constructed. The completed simulation model was used to estimate probability distributions for Salinas Valley net income under different pricing scenarios. Probabilities of reaching various net income thresholds were compared. Results indicate that Salinas Valley lettuce producers should maximize profitability by using forward contracts.

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California’S Ocean Economy, Judith T. Kildow Dr, Charles S. Colgan Jul 2005

California’S Ocean Economy, Judith T. Kildow Dr, Charles S. Colgan

Publications

California’s Ocean Economy is the most expansive study of its kind in the nation and provides an update to the 1994 economic study conducted by the California Research Bureau and later released as part of the Resources Agency ocean strategy titled, California’s Ocean Resources: An Agenda for the Future. This report from the National Ocean Economics Program (NOEP) provides a more comprehensive understanding of the economic role of California’s ocean resources than has been available to date. It also provides California with strong evidence that its unique ocean and coastal resources are important to sustaining California’s economy. This information highlights …

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Federal Farm Program Payments (1990-2001): An Analysis Of Changing Dependency And The Distribution Of Farm Payments In South Dakota, Larry Janssen, Yonas Hamda Jul 2005

Federal Farm Program Payments (1990-2001): An Analysis Of Changing Dependency And The Distribution Of Farm Payments In South Dakota, Larry Janssen, Yonas Hamda

Economics Staff Paper Series (1969 - 2017)

The growing dependence of the state and local economy and the farm sector on Federal farm program payments is highlighted in this South Dakota case study. The concentration and distribution of farm program payments to recipients at the county, regional and state level from 1996 - 2001 is examined. Reasons for and implications of growing inequality of farm program payments are discussed.

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2005 Legislative Wrap-Up, J. David Aiken Jun 2005

2005 Legislative Wrap-Up, J. David Aiken

Cornhusker Economics

The 2005 legislative session saw little agricultural legislation adopted, although several rural development measures were adopted. The most contentious issue was mandatory school consolidation.

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Comparison Of Returns For Cash Or Crop Share Rentals, H. Douglas Jose Jun 2005

Comparison Of Returns For Cash Or Crop Share Rentals, H. Douglas Jose

Cornhusker Economics

The popularity of cash leases as opposed to crop share leases has increased in recent years. Historically, crop share leases have predominated, but it is estimated that about half of the cropland leases in Nebraska are now cash leases and half are crop share. There are a number of reasons for this trend. With the competition for land, cash leases establish a specific rental rate which can easily be negotiated or bidup. The equivalent cash for a crop share situation cannot be determined until after harvest when the yield and market price of the crop are known. The land owners …

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Whose Money Is It Anyway?, Jeffrey S. Royer Jun 2005

Whose Money Is It Anyway?, Jeffrey S. Royer

Cornhusker Economics

Substantial reductions in personal income tax rates and an elimination of the estate tax have been major priorities for the current presidential administration. When arguing for tax cuts, George W. Bush has frequently told Americans that “It’s your money.” According to Princeton University ethicist Peter Singer, “His message was that when governments tax their subjects, they take money that belongs to the taxpayers and spend it—instead of letting the taxpayers decide for themselves how they want to spend it” (Singer 2004, p. 11). Singer thinks most Americans believe taxes are their money. As he puts it, “Of course it was …

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1031 Tax Exchanges And Nebraska’S Farm Real Estate Market, Bruce B. Johnson, Aaron Raymond Jun 2005

1031 Tax Exchanges And Nebraska’S Farm Real Estate Market, Bruce B. Johnson, Aaron Raymond

Cornhusker Economics

“The 1031's are giving us a distorted value of farmland.” The above quote from a Southeastern Nebraska reporter to this department’s 2005 Nebraska Farm Real Estate Survey, to be released July 1, reflects many of the comments made by reporters from across the state. The 1031 exchanges appear to be increasingly influential in local agricultural land markets from Chadron to Falls City. This year, for the first time in the series of monitoring factors influencing the value of agricultural land, the categories of non-farm investors and 1031 Tax Exchanges were ranked by our survey respondents as the two most influential …

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Wal-Mart And Economic Growth Of Nebraska Counties, Gibson Nene, Azzedine Azzam, Amalia Yiannaka, Steven Katchman Jun 2005

Wal-Mart And Economic Growth Of Nebraska Counties, Gibson Nene, Azzedine Azzam, Amalia Yiannaka, Steven Katchman

Rural Initiative Program: Publications and Reports

What is the issue and why is it important?

-Wal-Mart has been criticized regarding its socio-economic impact on communities

-Complaints are emanating from:
Consumers, suppliers, competitors, community leaders and labor unions

-Anti-Wal-Mart websites:
Wal-Martsucks.com
Wal-Mart defense
Wal-Martfacts.com

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Farmworkers In The Desert: An Anthropological Study Of A Village In Reclaimed Desert Land In Egypt, Kazuaki Takemura Jun 2005

Farmworkers In The Desert: An Anthropological Study Of A Village In Reclaimed Desert Land In Egypt, Kazuaki Takemura

Archived Theses and Dissertations

This is an anthropological study of farmworkers living in reclaimed desert land in Egypt. Since the start in the early-1950s, desert land reclamation has been a governmental enterprise to increase cultivable land in order to keep pace with the rapid population growth. From the mid-1970s, reclaimed desert areas started to be distributed to various groups of people. "Peasants, "university graduates", "public company employees", and recently "evicted tenants" received small plots of land from the government, and became small-scale farmers. The government has considered them as the main components of such "new land" projects. Likewise, development programs and research institutions in …

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