The authors gratefully acknowledge without any implication helpful comments and suggestions provided by Warren E. Johnston, Alex F. McCalla, Daniel Sumner, and Colin Carter and support provided by the Giannini Foundation. The scope of marketing as defi ned in this study includes work related to the markets for farm commodities, marketing institutions, and the individual and collective actions o...

There is uncertainty in the performance of wind energy installations due to unknowns in the local wind environment, machine response to the environment, and the durability of materials. Some of the unknowns are inherently independent from machine to machine while other uncertainties are common to the entire fleet equally. The FAROW computer software for fatigue and reliability of wind turbines ...

This study relaxes the assumption of perfect and costless policy enforcement found in traditional agricultural policy analysis and introduces enforcement costs and cheating into the economic analysis of output subsidies. Policy design and implementation is modeled in this paper as a sequential game between the regulator who decides on the level of intervention, an enforcement agency that determ...

neuroeconomics that has merged from the interaction of neuroscience, economics and psychology, is. promising new approach to understanding human behavior in economic analysis, especially as an selector (that is the fundamental issue is economics). this article illustrate the advantages of neuroeconomics and with focus on methodology of economics and ability of this branch of economic for theori...

Large tracts of the European rural land, most frequently in the Less Favoured Areas (LFA) are devoted to lowinput and Large Scale Grazing Systems (LSGS) under severe environmental constraints. A small part of the rural population strives to make a living under a risk of abandonment. Paradoxically, these areas harbour a great part of the European High Nature Value (HNV) farmland. We argue that g...

A quantitative and qualitative analysis of food consumption in the families collective farmers Molotov Sverdlovsk regions is provided article. The author used materials from funds two archives: Russian State Archive Economics (RSAE) Archives Region (SASR), some which have never been published. source base for writing this article was budget surveys population, a long history our country. It arg...

With the continuing pressure on Australia’s water resources and interand intra-annual rainfall variability, farmers, especially in rainfed agricultural and pastoral zones, have been developing farm dams as a mean of providing additional water sources for irrigation and stock. The density of farm dams has increased over time, and an accurate knowledge of the spatial distribution of farm dams is ...