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| Schenkel, Mark; Boisvert, Richard N.. |
| Recent concern among New York dairy farmers has grown regarding potential increases in energy costs as upstate utilities, under mandate from the New York Public Service Commission, move to time-of-use electricity rates. Furthermore, since it is often desirable to maintain relatively fixed intervals between daily milkings, farmers have expressed further concern about their ability to shift electricity consumption from expensive peak period hours to relatively inexpensive off-peak hours. To determine the effects of time-of-use electricity rates on New York dairy farms and to gain a better understanding of methods farmers can adopt to save energy, an empirical model estimating the time-of-day demand for electricity is developed. The parameters from this model... |
| Tipo: Technical Report |
Palavras-chave: Livestock Production/Industries; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 1994 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123007 |
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| Boisvert, Richard N.; Chang, Hung-Hao. |
| Using a national survey of U.S farm households, this paper investigates the interrelationship among the decisions to work off the farm by the operator and the spouse, and participation in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). The effects of these three decisions on farm household income are also examined. By estimating a heteroscedastic household income function, we identify the effects of participating in these activities on the average level of farm household income and its variation within each sub-group of farms involved in the several combinations of activities. Our empirical results support the hypothesis that participation in the CRP and decisions to work off the farm by the operator and the spouse are made jointly rather than independently. The... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21277 |
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| Chang, Hung-Hao; Boisvert, Richard N.. |
| Using a national survey of U.S farm households, we investigate the interrelationship between participation in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and the decision to work off the farm. We go on examine the effects of these two decisions on farm and farm household efficiency and productivity by estimating stochastic frontier productions for farm output and multiple output-orientated distance functions that consider income from agricultural sales, the CRP and off-farm work as outputs of the farm household. We control for the effects of self selection in estimating both the frontier production and distance functions. It appears that operators' decisions to work off the farm have led to significant improvements in household resource allocation between... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21147 |
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| Sado, Yukako; Boisvert, Richard N.; Poe, Gregory L.. |
| We use the non-tidal Passaic River Watershed as a case study to investigate the size of potential cost savings associated with allowing phosphorus emissions trading amongst Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTP) to achieve a significant reduction in ambient phosphorus levels. To measure the cost saving, we specify a trading-ratio system similar to that proposed recently by Hung and Shaw (JEEM, 2005) that minimizes the abatement cost of meeting environmental standards. Because there are relatively few potential traders and abatement costs are relatively homogeneous across firms, the cost savings to the 22 municipal waste water treatment plants relative to the base case will be on the order of 7%. We believe that these results fail to support efforts to... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9758 |
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| Schmit, Todd M.; Boisvert, Richard N.. |
| TIrroughout the debate over re-authorization of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), it has been clear that members of both Houses of Congress are keenly aware of the financial burden facing the owners of small water systems in their efforts to comply with the 1986 and future amendments to the SDWA. The most reliable source of funds for drinking water and wastewater improvements for small systems has been the Water and Waste Disposal Loan and Grant Program administered through the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) of the USDA's Rural Development mission area. This report provides some background of the RUS loan and grant program. Specific attention is directed towards New York's Rural Development efforts where we develop small system cost models related to... |
| Tipo: Technical Report |
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122990 |
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| Christiaensen, Luc J.M.; Boisvert, Richard N.. |
| Food security indicators used in practice are static in nature, thereby foregoing the key dimension of food security. This study develops an explicitly forward-looking food insecurity indicator and relative to this dynamic benchmark, we evaluate the performance of three readily available indicators: an agricultural production, a dietary diversity, and a coping strategy index. Calculation of our "gold standard" indicator, using panel data of 274 households from Mali, shows that neglecting the future may lead to substantial underestimation of a population's food insecurity. However, when compared to our "gold standard", the alternative indicators all identify most of the food insecure, with the coping strategy index displaying the most predictive power.... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21781 |
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| Chang, Hung-Hao; Boisvert, Richard N.; Blandford, David. |
| Through empirical simulations of the Taiwanese rice market, we estimate the effects of agricultural policies designed to ensure optimal levels of two multifunctional outputs, groundwater recharge and methane emissions. The settings of policy instruments differ by region to reflect land quality and the conditions of the aquifers. The effects on rice production, resource allocation, and returns to farm assets also differ. Welfare gains are highest if transboundary costs of methane emissions are taken into account. National payments set as a weighted average of optimal regional payments may result in similar welfare gains at lower administrative costs. The costs of assistance measures to help farmers adapt to the impact of lower asset values are shown to be... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25254 |
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| Blandford, David; Boisvert, Richard N.. |
| In recent years increased emphasis has been placed on a range of "non-trade" concerns and their implications for the move towards freer trade. We review the basis of several of these concerns, focusing particularly on multifunctionality. The simple view of a fixed proportions relationship between agricultural production and non-commodity outputs, such as landscape amenities, is shown to be untenable. Nevertheless, policies to internalize the effects of multiple externalities and public goods must be selected jointly to account for any interrelationships among them, and/or the market goods from agricultural production. We argue that this requires a shift away from traditional agricultural policies with their commodity orientation, towards a new policy... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural trade; Non-trade concerns; Multifunctionality; Agricultural policy; International Relations/Trade; Q17. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14615 |
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| Zhang, Xiaobo; Mount, Timothy D.; Boisvert, Richard N.. |
| Rapid industrial development and urbanization transfer more and more land away from agricultural production, threatening China’s capability to feed itself. This paper analyzes the determinants of land use by modeling arable land and sown area separately. An inverse U-shaped relationship between land use intensity and industrialization is explored both theoretically and empirically. The findings highlight the conflict between the two policy goals of industrialization and grain self-sufficiency in the end. Several policy recommendations are offered to reconcile the conflict. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16051 |
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| Peterson, Jeffrey M.; Boisvert, Richard N.. |
| A model of a voluntary "green" payment program is developed to control nitrate leaching and runoff from corn production in New York. The program achieves environmental goals through self-interested choices of farmers, grouped by the productive and environmental characteristics of soils. It considers randomness in prict}~, production, and environmental damage. Farmers are assumed to maximize expected utility subject to chance constraints on severe levels of nitrate contamination. This program compensates farmers for applying environmentally safe levels of nitrogen fertilizer. If information is symmetric, program participation conditions require that the post-policy expected utility is at least as large as pre-policy expected utility. Under asymmetric... |
| Tipo: Working Paper |
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy; Risk and Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122687 |
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| Boisvert, Richard N.; Ranney, Christine K.. |
| As the proportion of farm family income due to nonfarm sources continues to grow nationally, it is important to understand how farm families in various regions or states are affected. This paper develops a better understanding of the contribution of income from nonfarm sources to the level and distribution of income among farm families in New York. In analyzing income distribution, the Gini ratio is decomposed to determine the effects of marginal changes in income by source to overall inequality. The results are compared with the simulated changes in income inequality due to changes in income by source as measured by an "adjusted" Gini ratio which accounts specifically for negative farm incomes. Differences in the policy implications from both... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural Finance. |
| Ano: 1990 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28965 |
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