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Registros recuperados: 23 | |
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Babcock, Bruce A.; Beghin, John C.; Duffy, Michael D.; Feng, Hongli; Hueth, Brent; Kling, Catherine L.; Kurkalova, Lyubov A.; Schneider, Uwe A.; Secchi, Silvia; Weninger, Quinn; Zhao, Jinhua. |
As Congress develops new farm legislation, some are lobbying for a new partnership between U.S. taxpayers and farmers. In exchange for an annual transfer of $10 to $20 billion from taxpayers to agriculture, farmers would do much more to enhance environmental quality. An attractive feature of a new partnership is that paying for an improved environment provides a clear and justifiable rationale for farm program payments, something that is lacking under current farm programs. By changing management practices and land use, farmers can provide cleaner water, cleaner air, better wildlife habitat, lower net greenhouse gas emissions, and improved long-run soil quality. Private profit maximizers largely ignore the value of these environmental goods. Hence, the... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/36920 |
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Kurkalova, Lyubov A.; Burkart, Christopher; Secchi, Silvia. |
The report documents the creation of estimates for cropland cash rental rates in the Upper Mississippi River Basin in 1997. Although the basic data come from disparate sources, we employ a unifying estimation procedure based on the presumption that the cropland cash rental rate is an increasing function of corn yield potential. The rates are estimated at some 42,000 National Resources Inventory data points representing cropland in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Cropland cash rental rates; Land retirement; Upper Mississippi River Basin; Land Economics/Use. |
Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18652 |
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Dodder, Rebecca S.; Amani, Elobeid; Johnson, Timothy L.; Kaplan, P. Ozge; Kurkalova, Lyubov A.; Secchi, Silvia; Tokgoz, Simla. |
The tighter linkages between energy and crop markets due to recent climate and energy legislation in the US have large potential environmental impacts beyond carbon sequestration and climate mitigation. These range from effects on water quality and quantity, soil erosion, habitat and biodiversity preservation. These impacts are very location and management-decision specific, as they are the product of atomistic decisions and depend on soil and landscape specific variables. In order to fully understand the effects of biomass markets, the new and stronger linkages and feedback effects between national- and global-scale energy and commodity markets must be properly understood and identified using an integrated perspective. We discuss the various interactions... |
Tipo: Working Paper |
Palavras-chave: Energy and Commodity markets linkages; Integrated energy system assessment; Environmental impacts; Biofuels.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management; Land Economics/Use; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/118453 |
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Secchi, Silvia; Hurley, Terrance M.; Hellmich, Richard L.. |
Genetically engineered Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) corn provides farmers with a new tool for controlling the European corn borer (ECB). The high efficacy and potential rapid adoption of Bt corn has raised concerns that the ECB will develop resistance to Bt. The Environmental Protection Agency has responded to these concerns by requiring farmers to plant refuge corn. Current refuge requirements are based on models that do not consider the value of dynamically varying refuge in response to increased scarcity and diminished control over time or the importance of backstop technologies currently being developed. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate dynamically optimal refuge requirements with the arrival of alternative backstop technologies and to compare... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Bt corn; Optimal control; Pesticide resistance; Crop Production/Industries. |
Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18626 |
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Hurley, Terrance M.; Secchi, Silvia; Babcock, Bruce A.; Hellmich, Richard L.. |
Industry and scientists have worked to develop a high-dose refuge management plan that can effectively delay European corn borer (ECB) resistance to new genetically modified pesticidal corn. For a high dose, the corn expresses enough pesticide to kill all but the most resistant corn borers. For refuge, producers plant a traditional corn variety that allows susceptible corn borers to thrive and mate with resistant corn borers, slowing the proliferation of resistance. In general, the more refuge that is planted the less likely resistance. While there is general agreement on the basic premise of the high-dose refuge plan, how much refuge is needed to manage resistance is still being debated. This paper develops a stochastic agricultural production model to... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries. |
Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18679 |
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Secchi, Silvia; Babcock, Bruce A.. |
The authors develop an expected utility model with heterogeneous individuals and apply some of the approaches developed in the energy literature to explicitly identify the public nature characteristics of susceptibility in a dynamic setting and to characterize the optimal intertemporal usage problem from a social planner perspective. The authors determine the optimal time path for the depletion of susceptibility to an existing drug and show that use of antibiotics should be rationed across the population and through time. The authors also discuss the impact of endogenous technological change and analyze the dynamics of research activities in backstop technologies both in a certain and in an uncertain world. The authors show that resources invested in... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Livestock Production/Industries; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies. |
Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18499 |
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