SABIIA - Sistema Aberto e Integrado de Informação em Agricultura (Sabiia)

Westhoff, Patrick C.; Brown, Scott.

This document serves as a mid-year update to the 2008 FAPRI baseline prepared in January 2008. It reflects market developments and incorporates estimate information available in early August 2008.

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42906

Impacts of Selected Title I Provisions of the Senate Committee Farm Bill

Economic Effects of Biofuel Production on States and Rural Communities

This report examines selected provisions of Title I of the “Food and Energy Security Act of 2007,” as approved by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Security and Poverty; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37851

Parcell, Joseph L.; Westhoff, Patrick C..

This study summarizes research on farm-, local-, regional-, and macro-level economic effects of ethanol production. Given current production levels, the ethanol production industry annually employees approximately 3,500 workers, pays out nearly $132 million in worker salaries, generates over $110 million in local taxes, and takes in some $2 billion in government incentive payments. Projections for a 60 million gallon per year ethanol plant indicate an annual increase in corn usage of 21 million bushels, a one-time capitalization of $75 million, an increase in local corn prices between $0.06/bushel and $0.12/bushel, a 54 direct and 210 indirect jobs created, and increase in local tax revenues of $1.2 million, a decrease in federal commodity program...

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Biofuel; Ethanol; Local economy; Government subsidies; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; O13; Q40; Q42; R10.

Ano: 2006

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43774

Making the market: How U.S. Policy influences near term agriculture and biofuel industry production and profitability under technology adoption

Meyer, Seth D.; Binfield, Julian C.R.; Westhoff, Patrick C..

The beneficiaries of technology adoption in agriculture and biofuels markets in the United States are heavily influenced by domestic biofuel policies and market context. Biofuel mandates, one of the key pillars of domestic biofuel policies, may significantly alter the elasticity of demand for biofuels as well as the derived demand for maize used to produce a significant share of ethanol in the United States. Using a stochastic agriculture and biofuels model, we assess how the introduction of technology may affect the crops and biofuel markets under binding and non-binding biofuel mandates and discuss the implications for analysis of EU biofuel policies.

Analysis of Barley Market Developments and Policy Options

Palavras-chave: Biofuels; Policy; Technology adoption; Mandates; Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management; Land Economics/Use.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61089

US Baseline Briefing Book: Projections for agricultural and biofuel markets

Analysis of barley issues prepared in response to a request from Senators Crapo, Conrad, Craig, and Representatives Simpson, Otter, and Pomeroy.

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries.

Ano: 2006

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44780

Westhoff, Patrick C.; Brown, Scott.

This report presents a summary of ten year baseline projections for U.S. agricultural markets, farm program spending, farm income, and a variety of other indicators.

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37795

The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008: Preliminary Analysis of Selected Provisions

Westhoff, Patrick C.; Brown, Scott.

This report provides preliminary analysis of impacts of selected Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 (FCEA) provisions.

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37970

REFORMING THE CAP: A PARTIAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS OF THE MTR PROPOSALS

Binfield, Julian C.R.; Westhoff, Patrick C.; Young, Robert E., II.

In the Mid-Term Review (MTR), the European Commission proposed a series of changes to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). An important part of these changes was significant decoupling of support payments from production. In this paper, a partial equilibrium model of the EU agricultural sector is used to estimate the potential impacts of the MTR proposals on EU and world agricultural markets over the period 2004-2009. Effects of the MTR proposals are evaluated by comparing estimated outcomes under the proposals to those that would result under a current-policy baseline. The changes that are made in the MTR have the effect of reducing the production of the major commodities by varying amounts based on the importance of payments in production and the...

The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007: Preliminary Evaluation of Selected Provisions

Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy.

Ano: 2003

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25856

Impacts of Selected Title I Provisions of the Senate Committee Farm Bill

The “Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007” was signed into law in December 2007. This report provides a snapshot of estimated impacts of selected provisions of EISA on biofuel and agricultural markets.

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37820

FAPRI 2000 World Agricultural Outlook

This report examines selected provisions of Title I of the “Food and Energy Security Act of 2007,” as approved by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Security and Poverty; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37972

CHALLENGES IN MODELING THE EFFECTS OF TRADE AGREEMENTS ON THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR

Babcock, Bruce A.; Beghin, John C.; Mohanty, Samarendu; Fuller, Frank H.; Fabiosa, Jacinto F.; Kaus, Phillip J.; Fang, Cheng; Hart, Chad E.; Kovarik, Karen; Womack, Abner W.; Young, Robert E., II; Suhler, Gregg; Westhoff, Patrick C.; Trujillo, Joe; Brown, D. Scott; Adams, Gary M.; Willott, Brian; Madison, Daniel; Meyer, Seth D.; Kruse, John R..

The Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) prepares a preliminary agricultural outlook on world agricultural production, consumption, and trade every fall. This is followed by an outside review, re-evaluation of projections, and completion of the final baseline in January. The FAPRI 2000 World Agricultural Outlook presents these final projections for world agricultural markets. A companion volume, the FAPRI 2000 U.S. Agricultural Outlook, presents the U.S. component of the baseline. FAPRI projections assume average weather patterns worldwide, existing policy, and policy commitments under current trade agreements. FAPRI projections do not include conjectures on potential policy changes, such as those resulting from the likely eastward...

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries; Livestock Production/Industries.

Ano: 2000

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/32045

Westhoff, Patrick C.; Fabiosa, Jacinto F.; Beghin, John C.; Meyers, William H..

Major issues and challenges encountered in modeling and analyzing agricultural and trade policy reforms are reviewed. We focus on the modeling approach and pay special attention to the type and scope of the models, the calibration of a realistic baseline scenario, the representation of the reform agreement, the use of extra-model information, the choice of metrics to measure reform impacts, and emerging issues in policy modeling. Existing solutions and unresolved issues are examined. We stress the complementarity of various modeling approaches in assessing policy reforms and the importance of helping users understand the limitations of the chosen approach.

Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper

Palavras-chave: Agricultural policy; Economic modeling; Trade agreements; International Relations/Trade.

Ano: 2004

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18622

Potential for Uncertainty about Indirect Effects of Ethanol on Land Use in the Case of Brazil

Thompson, Wyatt; Meyer, Seth D.; Westhoff, Patrick C..

The indirect effects of ethanol on land are a focus of recent US biofuel literature and policy. The experiments presented here highlight the sensitivity of land use changes to assumptions about the ability of land to be converted from one use to another and the ease with which decision makers can make these conversions. By varying parameters governing land use in a simulation model, indirect effects on land use can be varied no less widely. Extending this result, there is an inverse relationship between the responsiveness of land allocation, which is a key element of overall supply response in the medium-term, and the magnitude of price effects: for a given shock, greater land response dampens the scale of price changes and lower land response is...

US BIOFUEL AND CLIMATE POLICIES DUEL OVER CELLULOSIC BIOMASS

Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54650

Thompson, Wyatt; Meyer, Seth D.; Westhoff, Patrick C..

Farm-Level Analysis of Risk Management Proposals

Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Environmental Economics and Policy; International Relations/Trade; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91404

Babcock, Bruce A.; Hart, Chad E.; Adams, Gary M.; Westhoff, Patrick C..

This paper presents a detailed report of the representative farm analysis (summarized in FAPRI Policy Working Paper #01-00). At the request of several members of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the U.S. Senate, we have continued to analyze the impacts of the Farmers' Risk Management Act of 1999 (S. 1666) and the Risk Management for the 21st Century Act (S. 1580). Earlier analysis reported in FAPRI Policy Working Paper #04-99 concentrated on the aggregate net farm income and government outlay impacts. The representative farm analysis is conducted for several types of farms, including both irrigated and non-irrigated cotton farms in Tom Green County, Texas; dryland wheat farms in Morton County, North Dakota and Sumner County, Kansas;...

Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper

Palavras-chave: Crop insurance; Farm analysis; Representative farm analysis; Revenue; Risk and Uncertainty.

Ano: 2000

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18389

INCORPORATING BIOFUELS INTO A PARTIAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL OF THE EU AGRICULTURAL SECTOR

Binfield, Julian C.R.; Westhoff, Patrick C.; Le Cadre, Elodie.

The impact of increased consumption of biofuels on agricultural markets has already been substantial, and will increase further as countries around the world seek to expand the proportion of their energy that they get from renewable sources. Models of the agricultural sector must therefore include some consideration of the demand for agricultural products for biofuels and the byproducts that are produced as part of the production process that are returned to the agricultural sector. In this paper the method of introducing biofuels into the FAPRI GOLD (grains, oilseeds, livestock and dairy) model is discussed. A scenario is run whereby the EU is assumed to introduce a binding 10% target by 2020 and the results are discussed in order to illustrate the...

CAP Reform and the WTO: Potential Impacts on EU Agriculture

Palavras-chave: Biofuels; Partial equilibrium model; Agricultural sector; EU policy; Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6680

Binfield, Julian C.R.; Donnellan, Trevor; Hanrahan, Kevin F.; Hart, Chad E.; Westhoff, Patrick C..

In 2003 an agreement was finalized to instigate arguably the most significant reform of the European Union's (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) since its inception. In the Luxembourg Agreement many of the direct payments that have been linked to production are decoupled and instead provided in the form of a land-based payment. The reforms did not include any significant changes to either EU border support or the ability of the EU to utilize export subsidies that have been widely criticized by other nations. Even though the reforms do not directly address trade in agricultural products it is argued that World Trade Organization (WTO) concerns played a significant role in the designs of the reforms. In this paper an analysis of the Luxembourg reforms and...