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| McGraw, Katherine; Popp, Jennie S. Hughes; Dixon, Bruce L.; Newton, Doris J.. |
| This article identifies factors that influence agricultural economics professionals’ job choice between academic and government employment. Respondents agreed that job responsibilities were the most important factor in choosing their current position. They also agreed that having a positive work environment, good salary, family time, adequate resources, and professional and social interaction were important job attributes. Proportionally more women than men regarded partner opportunities, nondiscrimination, time for child care, and supportive colleagues as very important attributes influencing their decisions. A binomial probit of respondents’ current job sector indicates significant job choice determinants include sector preference (academic or... |
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Palavras-chave: Academic and government agricultural economics professionals; Binomial probit; Job choice; Job preferences; Gender; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession; C25; J24; J43; J45. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123779 |
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| Naik, Gopal; Dixon, Bruce L.. |
| Monte Carlo analysis of the performance of alternative estimators of simultaneous system's coefficients in the presence of autocorrelation is performed. The "true" underlying model is an estimated, three-equation, monthly model of the U.S. pork market. Estimators for ex post forecasts are also compared. Multicollinearity is found to be a salient characteristic likely adversely affecting estimator performance. Results show that correcting for autocorrelation is desirable when levels of autocorrelation are high for both parameter accuracy and ex post forecasting. However, the best structural coefficient estimator for high levels of autocorrelation is not necessarily the best estimator for ex post forecasting. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Livestock Production/Industries; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods. |
| Ano: 1986 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/32250 |
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| Goeringer, L. Paul; Goodwin, Harold L., Jr.; Dixon, Bruce L.; Popp, Michael P.. |
| America’s agricultural producers continue to age. According to the U.S. Census of Agriculture, the average age of farm operators increased from 55.3 in 2002 to 57.1 in 2007. During the same period, the Census shows a thirty percent decrease in the number of farmers under the age of 25. Young and beginning producers (YBPs) entering agriculture can be faced with high startup costs and the lack of land to own or rent. To address this potential shortage of future farmers, we propose a program for the Farm Credit System to assist YBPs by offering Farm Service Agency guaranteed loans. In this program YBPs are given concessionary interest rates in consideration for adopting conservation and recommended “best” practices. To gauge the impact of the loan... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Agricultural Finance; Farm Management; Production Economics. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124427 |
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| Nwoha, Ogbonnaya John; Ahrendsen, Bruce L.; Dixon, Bruce L.; Chavez, Eddie C.; Hamm, Sandra J.; Settlage, Daniel M.; Danforth, Diana M.. |
| The three primary objectives of the Effectiveness Study are to: (1) identify groups being served by FSA direct farm loan programs, (2) examine the length of time borrowers remain in the programs and the proportion of borrowers who exit or 'graduate' from the programs, and (3) measure and identify ways of reducing loan subsidy rates. The study found that direct Farm Loan Programs (FLPs) appear to be serving their intended clientele. Recent FLP borrowers are more financially stressed than non-borrowers and would be generally considered as family farms. About 78 to 92 percent would qualify as small family farms using USDA's Small Farms Commission definition. FLP credit market penetration is relatively high among farms likely to be eligible for these... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural Finance. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15772 |
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| Stam, Jerome M.; Dixon, Bruce L.. |
| Farmer bankruptcies, bankruptcy rates, and related issues are explored from the beginning of modern bankruptcy legislation over a century ago. Farmer bankruptcies historically have been controversial because they are thought to indicate changes in the economic well-being and structure of the rural economy. Concerns about farmer bankruptcies were heightened twice during the past century. The first was from 1920 through the Great Depression and the second was during the 1980s. Bankruptcy data for Chapters 7, 11, and 13 exist for farmers for the 1899-1980 period, but there are no Chapter 7, 11, or 13 farmer bankruptcy data available beginning in 1980. However, data are available for the 1986-2002 period for Chapter 12, the Family Farmer Bankruptcy Act of... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Bankruptcy; Financial stress; Farm sector structure; Farm numbers; Foreclosure; Credit; Debt; Income; Agricultural Finance; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33689 |
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| Ahrendsen, Bruce L.; Dixon, Bruce L.; Priyanti, Atien. |
| Changes in commercial bank market shares of farm debt are decomposed into portfolio decisions loanable funds availability and loan market size for 64 counties in Arkansas from 1986 through 1990. A seemingly unrelated regression model is hypothesized to identify county characteristics that are related to changes in commercial bank market shares. Regression results indicate that county differences in economic activity, the relative risk associated with agriculture, farm structure and regional location contributed to changes in commercial bank market shares. The results imply a market niche for rural commercial banks emphasizing agricultural loans in the presence of unlimited branch banking. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Banks; Farm debt; Loan portfolio; Market share; Agricultural Finance. |
| Ano: 1994 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15172 |
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| Dixon, Bruce L.; Barry, Peter J.. |
| Mean-variance efficient portfolio analysis is applied to situations where not all assets are perfectly price elastic in demand nor are asset moments known with certainty. Estimation and solution of such a model are based on an agricultural banking example. The distinction and advantages of a Bayesian formulation over a classical statistical approach are considered. For maximizing expected utility subject to a linear demand curve, a negative exponential utility function gives a mathematical programming problem with a quartic term. Thus, standard quadratic programming solutions are not optimal. Empirical results show important differences between classical and Bayesian approaches for portfolio composition, expected return and measures of risk. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural Finance; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods. |
| Ano: 1983 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/32102 |
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| Ahrendsen, Bruce L.; Bierlen, Ralph W.; Langemeier, Larry N.; Dixon, Bruce L.. |
| Theoretically, leasing and debt are thought to be substitutes. This assumes that a lease payment, which is a fixed obligation like a loan, displaces debt and reduces debt capacity, i.e., if firms have optimal debt to equity ratios, then, to the extent that it represents "off-balance-sheet" financing, leasing reduces debt capacity. Ang and Peterson-the seminal work in the literature-fit Tobit models with 1976 to 1981 data from 600 firms in which a leasing to book value of equity ratio is the dependent variable and a debt to book value of equity ratio and other variables are the explanatory variables. Contrary to expectations, their model results indicate that leasing and debt are complementary activities. This study follows the Ang and Peterson... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural Finance; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21671 |
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| Mahrizal; Nalley, Lawton Lanier; Dixon, Bruce L.; Popp, Jennie S. Hughes. |
| This study sets out to empirically estimate the optimum annual replacement rate and age of cocoa trees in order to maximize the net present value of four common cocoa production systems. The study examines the costs and returns of four common cocoa production systems in Ghana associated with changes in cocoa prices, fertilizer prices, inflation rates, and labor prices. While this study focuses on cocoa, the methodology is applicable to any perennial crop. This study uses empirical yield curves and cost of production data from Ghana to determine when and what percentage of a cocoa orchard should be replaced annually to maximize net present value of revenues over time. Successive versions of the model are solved to determine how input and output price... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Cocoa; Replacement Rate; Net Present Value (NPV); Production Economics; Q01; Q15; Q32. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119777 |
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| Tur Cardona, Juan; Wailes, Eric J.; Dixon, Bruce L.; Danforth, Diana M.. |
| Multifunctional agriculture is particularly fundamental to some working lands conservation policies and programs, such as the Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP), Conservation Security Program (CSP) and Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program (WHIP). Farmers can also be engaged in providing recreational and agri-tourism services such as hunting, fishing, bird-watching, farm tours, petting zoos and hospitality services. Using the Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) we analyze factors associated with participation in conservation, recreation and agri-tourism activities as a function of farm structure, farm financial measures, production practices, and socio-demographic characteristics of the farm operator. To estimate the functional... |
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Palavras-chave: Multifunctional agriculture; Agri-environmental policy; Rice; Logistic model; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Crop Production/Industries; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use; Q18; Q26; Q28. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119750 |
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| Dixon, Bruce L.; Garcia, Philip; Adams, Richard M.; Mjelde, James W.. |
| Duality methods utilizing a profit function framework are employed to estimate the output elasticity of ambient ozone levels on cash grain farms in Illinois. While duality methods have been recommended as a cure to many of the statistical problems of direct estimation of production functions, multicollinearity may still be a problem. A method for utilizing stochastic information on parameters of a seemingly unrelated system of equations, which is implied by profit function estimation, is developed and applied to measuring the impact of ozone. Such an approach may be necessary in measuring other environmental effects because of a lack of regressor variability. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries; Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 1984 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/32140 |
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| Ahrendsen, Bruce L.; Koenig, Steven R.; Dixon, Bruce L.; Dodson, Charles B.; Settlage, Latisha A.. |
| The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 made permanent the interest assistance program for the Farm Service Agency's guaranteed loans, authorized a significant increase in funding for the program, and targeted funding for beginning farmers and ranchers. The research presented here provides a basic descriptive analysis of past use. In particular, borrower data for Federal fiscal years 1985 through 2002 are examined in several dimensions. These dimensions include geographic, borrower type, lender type, interest rate differentials, percent guarantee, and the status of the loan as to whether a loss claim was paid or the loan remained active. Even though the program has been in existence for more than 15 years, little is known about its impact... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15778 |
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| Tur Cardona, Juan; Wailes, Eric J.; Dixon, Bruce L.; Danforth, Diana M.. |
| Multifunctional agriculture is particularly fundamental to some working lands conservation policies and programs, such as the Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP), Conservation Security Program (CSP) and Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program (WHIP). Farmers can also be engaged in providing recreational and agri-tourism services such as hunting, fishing, bird-watching, farm tours, petting zoos and hospitality services. Using the Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) we analyze factors associated with participation in conservation, recreation and agri-tourism activities as a function of farm structure, farm financial measures, production practices, and socio-demographic characteristics of the farm operator. To estimate the functional... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Multifunctional agriculture; Agri-environmental policy; Rice; Logistic model; Agricultural and Food Policy; Land Economics/Use; Q18; Q26; Q28. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119768 |
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| Ahrendsen, Bruce L.; Dixon, Bruce L.; Lee, Laderrek T.. |
| In an era of rapid consolidation in banking, the effect of mergers on the availability of credit to agricultural businesses is unclear. Commercial bank mergers have profoundly altered the urban credit marketplace and are positioned to do the same for the agricultural credit marketplace. Adjustment models are estimated with data on independent bank consolidations from 1988 through 1995. The regression results bode well for agricultural lending if acquiring banks have larger concentrations of assets in agriculture than acquired banks. Conversely, if acquiring banks have smaller concentrations than acquired banks, acquisitions have a negative impact on agricultural lending. Since most acquiring banks have smaller agricultural loan concentrations than... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Acquisition; Agricultural loan portfolio; Banks; Consolidation; Merger; Agricultural Finance; Industrial Organization. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15363 |
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