Recently added articles from Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics:

Does On-Farm Quality Assurance Pay? A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Grainsafe Program

Dec 01, 2007; Karaca, Umit; Alexander, Corinne; Maier, Dirk ... Since the introduction of genetically modified (GM) crops, the commodity grain system has been under pressure to segregate GM and non-GM crops. Starting at the level of the grain handler, members of the grain supply chain have successfully used quality assurance and identity preservation ...

Hedging a Government Entitlement: The Case of Countercyclical Payments

Dec 01, 2007; Anderson, John D; Coble, Keith H; Miller, J Corey ... This research evaluates whether the introduction of countercyclical payments creates an incentive for program crop producers to hedge the expected government payment using futures and/or options. Results indicate that some level of countercyclical payment hedging is optimal for risk-averse ...

Consumer Likelihood to Purchase Chickens with Novel Production Attributes

Dec 01, 2007; Bernard, John C; Pesek, John D Jr; Pan, Xiqian ... Typical supermarket chickens are produced with novel or controversial attributes. This continues despite contrasting growth in consumer interest in organic and natural foods. This study surveyed Delaware consumers' likelihood to purchase chicken given different attributes: free range, given ...

Analyzing Landowner Demand for Wildlife and Forest Management Information

Dec 01, 2007; Munn, Ian A; Hussain, Anwar; West, Ben; Grado, Stephen C; Jones, W Daryl ... Determining appropriate topics and target audiences is essential to design effective educational outreach programs. Based on landowner responses to a mail survey, we determined both the importance and the availability of wildlife and forest management information topics to Mississippi ...

How Far Can Poultry Litter Go? A New Technology for Litter Transport

Dec 01, 2007; Carreira, R I; Young, K B; Goodwin, H L Jr; Wailes, E J ... Exporting northwest Arkansas excess turkey and broiler litter to partially fertilize nutrient-deficient cropland in eastern Arkansas can be more cost effective than to supply all crop nutrients with chemical fertilizer only, given current high fertilizer prices. Cost savings are greater if ...

Fresh-Cut Melon-The Money Is in the Juice

Dec 01, 2007; Mayen, Carlos; Marshall, Maria I; Lusk, Jayson ... Fruit is an important component of the food industry in the United States, and "fresh-cut" products are an increasing portion of that consumption. We found that packaging and juice content played a significant role in the choices Indiana consumers made when purchasing fresh-cut melon products ....

Effects of Seed and Farm Characteristics on Cottonseed Choice: A Choice-Based Conjoint Experiment in the Mississippi Delta

Dec 01, 2007; Banerjee, Swagata "Ban"; Hudson, Darren; Martin, Steven W ... Producers' preferences for cottonseed with respect to price, seed type, yield, and fiber quality are examined by a willingness-to-pay approach via mail surveys. Results indicate a positive willingness to pay (WTP) for technology relative to conventional cottonseed, and WTP increases with the ...

Hog Producers' Risk Management Attitudes and Desire for Additional Risk Management Education

Dec 01, 2007; Patrick, George F; Peiter, Amy J; Knight, Thomas O; Coble, Keith H; Baquet, Alan E ... Hog producers in Indiana and Nebraska were surveyed about sources of risk, effectiveness of risk management strategies, and prior participation in and desire for additional risk management education. Ownership of hogs by the producer, size of the operation, and age did have significant effects ...

Forecasting Irrigation Water Demand: A Case Study on the Flint River Basin in Georgia

Dec 01, 2007; Banerjee, Swagata "Ban"; Tareen, Irfan Y; Gunter, Lewell F; Bramblett, Jimmy; Wetzstein, Michael E ... Southeast drought conditions have accentuated the demand for irrigation in the face of restricted water supply. For allocating this supply, Georgia held an auction for withdrawing irrigated acreage. This auction withdrew 33,000 acres from irrigation, resulting in a physical estimate of a 399 ...

Location Preference for Risk-Averse Dutch Dairy Farmers Immigrating to the United States

Dec 01, 2007; Richardson, James W; Herbst, Brian; Duncan, Anthony; Besten, Mark den; van Hoven, Peter ... Increased environmental regulations and a milk quota that restricts growth have increased the interest in immigration to the United States by Dutch dairy farmers. A risk-based economic analysis of 23 representative U.S. dairy farms versus a representative Dutch farm shows that risk-averse Dutch ...

Living on the Edge: Residential Property Values in the Urban-Rural Interface

Dec 01, 2007; Espey, Molly; Fakhruddin, Fahmida; Gering, Lawrence R; Lin, Huiyan ... This study estimates the contribution of both urban-rural fringe location and lake proximity on residential property values in three upstate counties of South Carolina through estimation of spatial hedonic housing price models. Location in the urban fringe and the urban-rural interface are found ...

The Value of Third-Party Certification of Preconditioning Claims at Iowa Feeder Cattle Auctions

Dec 01, 2007; Bulut, Harun; Lawrence, John D ... After controlling a variety of feeder cattle characteristics and market and sale conditions in Iowa feeder auctions, the price premiums for preconditioning claims (vaccinations and minimum 30 days of weaning) with and without third-party certification (TPC) are estimated as $6.12/cwt and ...

Determining Returns to Storage: Does Data Aggregation Matter?

Dec 01, 2007; Klumpp, Joni M; Brorsen, B Wade; Anderson, Kim B ... Aggregate data are commonly used to determine returns to storage. However, recent studies have shown that aggregating data may lead to underestimated returns. This article compares aggregate and elevator data from Oklahoma to determine if aggregate data underestimate returns. We find no ...

The Impact of an Urban Growth Boundary on Land Development in Knox County, Tennessee: A Comparison of Two-Stage Probit Least Squares and Multilayer Neural Network Models

Dec 01, 2007; Cho, Seong-Hoon; Omitaomu, Olufemi A; Poudyal, Neelam C; Eastwood, David B ... The impact of an urban growth boundary (UGB) on land development in Knox County, TN is estimated via two-stage probit and neural-network models. The insignificance of UGB variable in the two-stage probit model and more visible development patterns in the western part of Knoxville and the ...

Production Efficiency and Diversification in Mexican Coffee-Producing Districts

Dec 01, 2007; Vedenov, Dmitry; Houston, Jack; Cardenas, Gabriela ... Coffee production system is analyzed for 24 municipios (districts) in Veracruz, Mexico, from 1997 to 2002. A stochastic frontier approach is used to estimate an input distance function and to evaluate production efficiency. Results show the production process to be stable over time despite ...

Effectiveness of Integrated Pest Management Dissemination Techniques: A Case Study of Potato Farmers in Carchi, Ecuador

Dec 01, 2007; Mauceri, Maria; Alwang, Jeffrey; Norton, George; Barrera, Victor ... Potato farmers in Ecuador rely on chemical inputs to manage pests and optimize yields. Integrated pest management techniques lower production costs, reduce pesticide exposure, and improve long-term agricultural sustainability. Public extension does not, however, exist in Ecuador, and ...

Technical Efficiency of the Dual-Purpose Cattle System in Venezuela

Dec 01, 2007; Ortega, Leonardo E; Ward, Ronald W; Andrew, Chris O ... A stochastic production frontier model was estimated to provide standard measurement of technical efficiency of the dual-purpose cattle system located in Zulia State, Venezuela. This system is based on local and low-cost inputs, but has been considered to be inefficient because of its low ...

Spatial Price Dynamics in U.S. Regional Broiler Markets

Dec 01, 2007; Awokuse, Titus O; Bernard, John C ... The U.S. broiler industry is highly vertically integrated and increasingly concentrated in the number of firms and production areas. These structural elements could have implications for performance and the functioning of the law of one price (LOP) across regions. This article investigates this ...

Impact of Program Payments on Time Allocation and Farm Household Income

Dec 01, 2007; Dewbre, Joe; Mishra, Ashok K ... Using a model of farm household resource allocation and data from the USDA-ERS Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS), this study compares the effects of various categories of farm program payments on time allocation by farm operators and spouses. Results suggest that agricultural market ...

FSA Direct Farm Loan Program Graduation Rates and Reasons for Exiting

Dec 01, 2007; Dixon, Bruce L; Ahrendsen, Bruce L; Nwoha, O John; Hamm, Sandra J; Danforth, Diana M ... Farm Service Agency (FSA) direct loans are intended to provide transitory credit to creditworthy borrowers unable to obtain conventional credit at reasonable terms. Farm loan program (FLP) effectiveness is measured in part by how readily direct loan borrowers graduate to conventional credit. A ...