The ongoing industrialization of U.S. agriculture encompasses important changes in farm production practices, in the organization of farm input and output markets, and in the mix of activities carried out by farm operators. These shifts raise important issues for the role of government in the sector and for the design of research and data programs to support public-policy analysis. Basic framew...

The MARORA model is used to evaluate the economics of investment in on-farm reservoirs in Arkansas under alternative land tenure arrangements. A declining groundwater supply coupled with a high percentage of rice-production area owned by absentee landowners makes investment decision-making on on-farm reservoirs an important issue for the sustainability of rice in Arkansas. The MARORA model is s...

The Modified Arkansas Off-Stream Reservoir Analysis (MARORA) model estimates the economics of on-farm reservoirs and other water conservation improvements in alternative ground water situations. With restricted ground water supply, a combination of different water conservation methods is estimated to provide the greatest economic return. On-farm reservoirs are not economical if ground water is ...

This paper addresses the development of farm businesses in Sweden, 2000–2007, with regard to their specialization in single farm enterprises, diversified agricultural production and diversification with new income-generating ventures. Furthermore, regression analysis is used to study the impact of farm characteristics on the observed specialization and diversification. The study is based a pane...

In paper was used the panel data from Nigeria General Household Survey and commodity prices alternative sources between 2010-2016 to estimate farm households' food non-food demand in Nigeria. The bundles of all groups were necessities goods, as their budget elasticities positive also inelastic. Animal products a luxury good. There is no strong complementary substitutive relationship existing cr...

1 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ag. Economics, Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh), Valdivia, Chile. 2 Boris E. Bravo-Ureta, Executive Director, Office of International Affairs and Professor of Ag. & Resource Economics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. 3 Amilcar Arzubi, Professor of Farm Management, Universidad de Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 4 Ernesto Schilder, Economis...

The Austrian example illustrates the potentials as well as the limitations of forest accountancy data networks as devices for investigating and furthering the profitability of small scale farm forestry (SSFF). Special reference is made to the experiences gained in the process of adaptation and renewal of the system of data management and reporting, which took place in the year 2000. The sampled...