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

New Zealand Agriculture Policy Review

Bode, Sven.

Emission trading has become recently more and more import in environmental regulation. In the context of controlling greenhouse gas emissions, the directive on a Europewide trading scheme for large immobile sources may be perceived as one of the most important milestones in recent years. Prior to its start, however, a number of very specific design features have to be agreed upon. In the political discussion, the question of how to allocate emission rights is considered as one of the most important issues. So far, a distribution (almost) free of charge is the option of choice. An aspect that has interestingly attracted little attention in the past is the question of how to allocate emission rights over time. This may for example be done on the basis of a...

Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper

Palavras-chave: Abatement costs; Allocation of GHG allowances; Benchmark; Compliance costs; Electricity sector; Multi-period emission trading; Environmental Economics and Policy; H23; H25; L20; L52; L94; Q25; Q28.

Ano: 2004

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/26314

Gilmour, Brad; Gurung, Rajendra Kumar.

In 1984, New Zealand introduced important policy reforms in order to address major macroeconomic and fiscal imbalances. New Zealand's support to agricultural producers rapidly decreased from 30 percent of the value of production to about 2 percent, and has remained the lowest among OECD economies since that time. After a difficult transition, the removal of subsidies resulted in a more diversified and competitive rural economy in New Zealand; total factor productivity growth has been roughly 2.5 percent annually since 1984, compared to roughly 1.5 percent in the prereform period. This Policy Review focuses on agricultural policy today and how New Zealand is supporting the agricultural sector now without resorting to subsidies. It describes the policy New...

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: New Zealand; Agricultural policy; Benchmark; Proactive; Agricultural and Food Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; International Relations/Trade; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Risk and Uncertainty.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46688

The International Quality Systems Environment

Krieger, Stephanie; Schiefer, Gerhard.

Enterprises in the agri-food sector are increasingly confronted with the need to adjust their production processes and operations to the requirements of quality systems and to integrate these requirements into their own individual integrated process management system. Integra- tion efforts are further aggravated by correlations of quality system requirements with other process related requirements. First initiatives have started to benchmark the requirements of different quality systems to have an analyse about the level of the same requirements. Output of this article will be a description of an advisory model (database model with computerized support), which presents a support tool for the implementation of quality, environ- mental and occupational...

Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation

Palavras-chave: Quality standards; Benchmark; Harmonisation; Advisory model; Agribusiness; International Relations/Trade.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6616

THE PERFORMANCE OF AGRICULTURAL MARKET ADVISORY SERVICES IN MARKETING WHEAT

Jirik, Mark A.; Irwin, Scott H.; Good, Darrel L.; Jackson, Thomas E.; Martines-Filho, Joao Gomes.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of agricultural market advisory services in marketing wheat. Two key performance questions are addressed: 1) Do market advisory services, on average, outperform an appropriate wheat market benchmark? and 2) Do market advisory services exhibit persistence in their wheat performance from year-to-year? Market advisory service recommendations for wheat are available from the AgMAS Project for the 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 marketing years. At least 20 advisory programs are included for each year. Tests of pricing performance relative to a market benchmark are based on the proportion of programs exceeding the benchmark price and the average percentage difference between the net price of advisory...

Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation

Palavras-chave: Wheat; Market advisory service; Benchmark; Market efficiency; Pricing performance; Predictability; Crop Production/Industries; Marketing.

Ano: 2000

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18928

Per Unit Costs to Own and Operate Farm Machinery

Beaton, Aaron J.; Dhuyvetter, Kevin C.; Kastens, Terry L.; Williams, Jeffery R..

With increasingly thin margins and new technologies, it is important that farm managers know their cost of field operations on a per unit basis (e.g., acre, ton, bale). Accurate per unit costs give confidence when constructing enterprise budgets and evaluating new technologies, such as no-till. Custom rates are often used as a proxy for per unit costs; however, this research, using entropy and jackknife estimation procedures, found that custom rates understate total ownership and operating costs by approximately 25% for an average Kansas farm. Estimates from these models are then used to benchmark actual costs against expected cost.

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Benchmark; Custom rates; Custom work; Entropy; Jackknife; Machinery costs; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis; Q10; Q12; C51; C60.

Ano: 2005

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43720

Technical performance of milk producers in the state of Goiás , Brazil, in the short and long terms

Sousa,Lucas Oliveira de; Campos,Samuel Alex Coelho; Gomes,Marília Fernandes Maciel.

The objective of this study was to identify groups of technologically homogeneous milk producers in the State of Goiás and calculate the gains for inefficient producers, considering the ones of better performance (benchmarks) with the same technological level, i.e., in the short term, and the benchmarks in higher technological level, i.e., in the long term. Multivariate statistical analysis techniques were used for the formation of homogeneous producer groups and multi-stage model of data envelopment analysis (DEA) for the estimation of efficiency scores and identification of benchmarks. The results indicated the formation of four groups of producers and indicate that, on average, the dairy farming in Goiás presents mainly characteristics of traditional,...

Identificação e quantificação de indicadores-referência de sistemas de produção de leite

Palavras-chave: Benchmark; Cluster; Dairy farming; Efficiency.

Ano: 2012

URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982012000800020

Oliveira,André Soares de; Cunha,Daniel de Noronha Figueiredo Vieira da; Campos,José Maurício de Souza; Vale,Sônia Maria Leite Ribeiro do; Assis,Anderson Jorge de.

Objetivou-se identificar e quantificar indicadores-referência de sistemas de produção de leite no Extremo Sul da Bahia. Analisaram-se o perfil tecnológico e os indicadores zootécnicos, econômicos e de tamanho de nove empresas. Foram determinados os coeficientes de correlação dos indicadores com a taxa de remuneração do capital investido. Após a identificação dos indicadores que apresentaram correlação, foram geradas equações de regressão para cada indicador em função da taxa de remuneração do capital investido para quantificar os indicadores-referência em quatro cenários de taxa de remuneração do capital investido (4, 6, 8 e 10% ao ano). Os indicadores correlacionados e seus respectivos valores nos quatro cenários foram: produção diária de leite (456, 538,...

Association between technical and economic performance indexes and dairy farm profitability

Palavras-chave: Benchmark; Custo de produção; Gestão; Rentabilidade.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982007000200030

Ferrazza,Rodrigo de Andrade; Lopes,Marcos Aurélio; Prado,Danielle Gonçalves de Oliveira; Lima,Renato Ribeiro de; Bruhn,Fabio Raphael Pascoti.

ABSTRACT This study aimed to evaluate the determinant profitability indexes of typical dairy farms located in Brazil. The empirical sample included detailed technical and financial information of 61 Brazilian dairy farms across a longitudinal data set (10 years). Numerous technical and economic indexes were estimated, and Pearson’s correlation coefficients were calculated to determine the relationship between each index and profitability. After selecting the significant indexes, regression equations were generated to determine the relationship between each index and profitability. The results of the analysis revealed significant interactions between different combinations of technical and financial indexes. Milk production per lactating cow and area were...

Identification and quantification of benchmarks of milk production systems in Minas Gerais

Palavras-chave: Benchmark; Dairy cattle; Efficiency; Profit; Rural management.

Ano: 2020

URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982020000100103

Camilo Neto,Matozalém; Campos,José Maurício de Souza; Oliveira,André Soares de; Gomes,Sebastião Teixeira.

The objective of this study was to identify and quantify benchmarks of milk production systems. The technological profile and size, livestock and economic indicators of sixteen farms in the region of Triângulo Mineiro were analyzed. Indicators correlated with rate of return on capital (RRC) were identified and quantified in four scenarios of RRC (6, 8, 10 and 12% per year). The correlated indicators and their respective values in the four scenarios were: land (99, 90, 81 and 73 ha); relation of total cows in lactation (74, 77, 79 and 82%); lactating cows per area (0.89; 0.99; 1.11 and 1.22 cows/ha); milk production per lactating cow (12.04; 13.00; 13.96 and 14.92 liters/cow/day); milk production per total cows (9.19; 10.23; 11.27 and 12.31 liters/cow/day);...