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Space, Government Payments, and Off-Farm Labor Response of Principal Farm Operators: A County-Level Analysis [PDF]

We examine the effects of space and government payments on off-farm employment among principal farm operators for the entire US as well as for ERS/USDA farm resource regions.
Findeis, Jill L., Shrestha, Sundar S.
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Chinese Trade Competition and Rural Mexican Migration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 reshaped global trade, reducing U.S. demand for Mexican manufactured goods and weakening Mexico's manufacturing employment. This study estimates how this trade‐induced decline affected migration and employment decisions among rural Mexicans.
Zachariah Rutledge, Joaquin Mayorga
wiley   +1 more source

Farm-level water-energy-food nexus optimisation using hybrid metaheuristic–mathematical programming

Energy Nexus
Irrigation decision-making is a complex, multidimensional challenge requiring integrated water and energy management to maximise farm profitability. Existing agricultural decision-making frameworks fail to optimise farm-level interactions between water ...
Marcill van den Berg, Bennie Grové, Nicolette Matthews, Johan Barnard   +3 more
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FARM LEVEL IMPACTS OF THE 2002 FARM BILL ON A GEORGIA AND NORTH CAROLINA FARM [PDF]

The 2002 Farm Bill eliminates the peanut quota program and establishes a marketing loan program for peanuts. A Georgia and North Carolina peanut model farm are developed to examine farm level impacts of program changes.
Smith, Nathan B., Bullen, Gary
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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina, Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Benchmarking farm-level cotton water productivity using on-farm irrigation measurements and remotely sensed yields

Agricultural Water Management
Benchmarking farm-level irrigation water productivity (WPI) and water productivity (WP) can assist in understanding the irrigation effectiveness of individual farms and in developing strategies to improve their irrigation management.
Zitian Gao, Danlu Guo, Dongryeol Ryu, Andrew W. Western   +3 more
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GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND ON-FARM WHEAT ALLOCATION IN RURAL CHINA [PDF]

Market-oriented policy reforms have potentially important effects on farm-level grain production and utilization decisions in developing countries. This paper provides an empirical evaluation of the potential effects of market liberalization in China on ...
Smith, Vincent H., Di, Hua, Buschena, David E.   +2 more
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
wiley   +1 more source

Adoption of Recommended Varieties: A Farm-level Analysis of Wheat Growers in Irrigated Punjab [PDF]

This study uses farm level data to analyse the determinants of adoption of recommended wheat varieties in irrigated Punjab, Pakistan. A notable proportion of wheat acreage is sown to non-recommended wheat varieties in the province.
Muhammad Iqbal, M. Azeem Khan, Munir Ahmad   +2 more
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Farmers' Preferences for Gene Editing Crops and Influencing Factors

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gene editing (GE) is gaining momentum worldwide, but limited data on UK farmers' preferences hinders our understanding of its potential impact amid deregulation debates. Based on a survey of 200 English arable farmers, we employ a Latent Class Analysis and Multinomial Logit regressions to investigate current preferences for GE crops.
Bertolozzi‐Caredio Daniele, Vigani Mauro   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source