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| D'Antoni, Jeremy M.; Mishra, Ashok K.. |
| The MILC program, a counter-cyclical income support program, was designed to provide price support to dairy farmers. Since the inception of the MILC program it has been argued that the program is inefficient and rewards inefficiency by keeping high cost, small dairy farms in business. Large dairy producers have expressed concerns that the MILC payments have negatively affected their farming income. Using farm-level, ARMS data from 2005, this study investigated the factors that affect farmer’s decision to participate in MILC program and if participation in MILC has an impact on milk production. The results show that participation in MILC program is positively correlated with farmer’s educational attainment, organic certification subsidy, milk price,... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Dairy farms; Agricultural policy; Milk Income Loss Contract Program; Two-step probit estimation; Agricultural and Food Policy; Livestock Production/Industries; H20; Q13; Q18. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103775 |
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| D'Antoni, Jeremy M.; Mishra, Ashok K.; Gillespie, Jeffrey M.. |
| The assumption of homogeneity between family and hired farm labor is common in farm labor research. Controlling for region and farm size, this study employs a seemingly unrelated regression analysis to jointly estimate a translog cost function and factor cost shares to determine the elasticity of substitution between hired and family farm labor. The results show an evidence of heterogeneity of farm labor in both cash grain and hog farms in the U.S. There is further evidence that the elasticity of substitution is unitary and the cost minimizing ratio of hired and family labor is not independent of time. Regional factors were found to have little effect on the substitutability of farm labor, whereas farm size was found to have a significant influence on... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics; Labor and Human Capital; Production Economics. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/98754 |
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| D'Antoni, Jeremy M.; Mishra, Ashok K.. |
| Recent generations of farmers have experienced considerable difficulties earning a consistent living wage to support the needs of themselves and their families. To meet these needs, many farmers and their spouses have increasingly left the agricultural industry to seek employment. Previous studies have found government policies intended to slow the migration of labor from agriculture have little influence. Using an autoregressive distributed lag model and adjusting for non-stationary variables in the labor migration equation, direct government payments were found to have a negative and significant effect on labor migration from agriculture. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Farm Labor; Government Payments; Time Series; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56426 |
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