Optimal beef cattle management under agricultural policy reforms in Finland

World Cereals Markets under Alternative Common Agricultural Policy Reforms

Previous quantitative assessments of likely impacts of recent reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy (in particular the Agenda 2000) differ across empirical studies. Differences are mainly due to the ways the policy instruments are taken into account (explicit modeling or implicit modeling i.e. using ad-valorem equivalents). The aim of this paper is to assess empirically the impacts of recen...

Agricultural Policy Reforms Reforms and Rural Development in Turkey

Beef Cattle Management Update

Cow/calf and feedlot producers and those who provide professional assistance to them are very aware of the need to produce feeder/fed cattle profitability, but often fail to put sufficient emphasis on ensuring consumers a quality and consistent beef product. A heightened awareness of the importance of beef quality and consistency has occurred throughout the beef industry during the 1990s. The f...

Policy Reforms Affecting Agricultural Incentives: Much Achieved, Much Still Needed

For decades, earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies, as well as by governments of richer countries favoring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies reduce national and global economic welfare and inhibit agricultural trade and economic growth. They almost certainly add to inequality and p...

Re-assessing Agrarian Policy and Practice in Local Environmental Management: The Case of Beef Cattle