Of all markets, the land market has been thought independent variables.2 Respondents were asked to to be one of the most difficult to explain. Techniques report on one randomly selected 1970 transaction for predicting land prices leave much to be desired. with which they were familiar. Of the 155 Nevertheless, the importance of this market continues questionnaires sent, 63 were returned with es...

Beef outputs from dairy farms make an important contribution to overall profitability in Irish dairy herds and are the sole source of revenue in many beef herds. The aim of this study was to estimate genetic parameters for animal BW and price across different stages of maturity. Data originated from 2 main sources: price and BW from livestock auctions and BW from on-farm weighings between 2000 ...

A survey conducted in Mississippi, Texas, Indiana, and Nebraska elicited producers’ preferences for various farm policy changes. This permitted examination of the diversity of preferences that single-state studies have not allowed. Five policy choices, including deficiency payments, loan programs, crop insurance, export programs, and disaster payments were examined. Logit model results predicti...

Grains intended for human consumption or feedstock are typically high-value commodities that marketed based on either their visual characteristics compositional properties. The combination of traits, chemical composition and contaminants is generally referred to as grain quality. Currently, the market value quantified at point receival, using trading standards defined in terms criteria bulk con...

Increasing input self-sufficiency is often viewed as a target to improve sustainability of dairy farms. However, few studies have specifically analysed input self-sufficiency, by including several technical inputs and without only focussing on animal feeding, in order to explore its impact on farm sustainability. To address this gap, our work has three objectives as follows: (1) identifying the...

In this article, we investigate the investment behaviour of French crop farmers between 2002 and 2014, with a focus on their adjustments to prices farm output prices, which became more volatile after 2007. We estimate an econometric model accounting for heterogeneity allowing change in behavioural parameters Our results show evidence significant large investments over time, related farmers’ pre...

Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. Game-based bargaining theory is presented to evaluate the potential of and stability of cooperative coalition among producers for enhancing producer returns and managing market price and income risk. Results clarify that collective bargainin...