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| Wills, Ian R.. |
| Information problems impede private contracting for the supply of many natural resource services. They are also likely to prevent the government identifying and achieving optimum levels of natural resource degradation on agricultural land. In particular, the distributional impacts of government intervention create incentives for strategic distortions of information by interested parties. Resource conservation measures which impose costs on beneficiaries, and which provide positive incentives for farmers to monitor resource degradation, may be superior because they reduce information problems. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 1987 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22579 |
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| Wills, Ian R.. |
| Successive surveys of 376 rural holdings near Melbourne, in 1974-75 and 1978-79, revealed a substantial increase in part-time farming at the expense of full-time farming, but little change in overall land use and area farmed. Few of the part-time farms surveyed were profitable in the mid-1970's, but most farmers put their farming way of life ahead of financial considerations, and the blow was softened by capital gains on farm land and the tax deductibility of farm losses. Part-time farms were a little less productive than neighbouring full-time farms, but there was little evidence that small part-time farms were neglected or badly managed. In any case, the relative insignificance of small holdings in the survey areas suggests that concern about the adverse... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 1983 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12455 |
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| Wills, Ian R.. |
| This paper reports the results of a survey of part-time farmers in two shires close to Melbourne in 1974-75. The farmers were a very diverse group in terms of off-farm employment and income; few derived substantial income from farming and the majority indicated that they farmed for non-financial reasons. Part-time farming appeared to be a stable working/ living arrangement and part-time farms were about as productive as full-time farms in the same shire. Possible tax savings associated with part-time farming are discussed. The findings raise doubts about the appropriateness of profit-maximising models for analysing part-time farmer behaviour. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Farm Management. |
| Ano: 1978 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10303 |
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| Wills, Ian R.; Harris, Jane. |
| Most foodstuffs have quality attributes that are difficult to determine prior to purchase. Thus quality assurance is an inherent problem in food exporting. Private quality assurance can succeed if exporters can credibly signal that they have much to lose from cessation of purchases. If exporters do not provide credible quality signals, and foreign importers judge food quality according to country of origin, honest exporters can suffer negative spillovers from others' cheating under either government or private quality assurance. For both economic and political reasons, the best choice between government and private quality assurance will differ between foods and importing countries. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Public Economics. |
| Ano: 1994 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22428 |
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| Wills, Ian R.; Lloyd, Alan G.. |
| This paper deals with the problem of determining the optimum combination of sheep and beef cattle on grazing properties. A major difficulty is that iso-cost functions (production possibility curves) for sheep and cattle are unstable and difficult to estimate because of sheep-cattle-pasture interaction. After discussion of theoretical difficulties consideration is given to practical approaches, based on the iso-cost function concept, which might provide graziers with useful guide-lines. Evidence is presented which suggests that the substitution rate between sheep and cattle with respect to pasture is not constant, and probably varies with stocking rate. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1973 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22884 |
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