A beef herd submodel was created for integration with other farm components to form a whole-farm model capable of simulating a wide range of beef production systems. This herd submodel determined the best available feed or feed mix to meet the fiber, energy, and protein requirements for each of up to six animal groups on the farm. The groups comprised any combination of cows, nursing calves, yo...

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Recent research on the impact of institutions su¤ers from historical, theoretical, and methodological problems. The historical issue is whether the initially poorer countries became wealthier, as Acemoglou, Johnson, and Robinson (2002) would have us believe. The theoretical question is whether the institutions that should matter are those that protect property rights or those that coordindate i...

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The current research aimed at addressing the trends, challenges, and opportunities in agricultural economics. constant development economics warrants a better understanding of such changes to help with effective decision making agriculture. Consecutively, review literature has enabled identify three trends; organic farming, agroforestry, climate-smart used secondary data primary when conducting...

Background: Human labour, bullock power, mechanical water for irrigation, seeds, manures and fertilizers, insecticides pesticides cultivation practices, etc. are the major inputs in farm production costly scarce therefore requires proper allocation utilization. Cheery could be a better alternative to apple it is necessary study resource use efficiency of different size classes by calculating el...

This paper examines the effects of the institutional environment on West African cotton farmers’ technical efficiency (TE). First, key aspects of the cotton sector institutional environment are discussed, including input and credit access, and producers’ organisations. Then, a stochastic frontier production function, which incorporates technical inefficiency effects, is applied to farm level da...