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Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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País: |
United States
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Título: |
Climate Change Impacts on Investment in Crop Sowing Machinery
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Autores: |
Kingwell, Ross S.
Farre, Imma
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Data: |
2008-05-09
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Ano: |
2008
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Palavras-chave: |
Climate change
Farm machinery
Farm management
Machinery investment
Environmental Economics and Policy
Farm Management
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Resumo: |
Down-scaled global circulation modelling is combined with wheat growth simulation modelling to generate yield responses to times of sowing under current and projected climatic conditions for several locations in the grainbelt of Western Australia. A model for investment in crop sowing machinery draws on these simulated yield relationships at each location and is used to determine a farmer’s optimal investment in crop sowing work rate capacity under current and projected climate regimes. The key finding is that at most locations the projected change in climate has marked impacts on profit distributions from grain production, yet mostly modest changes in the farmer’s investment in machinery work rate form part of the profit-maximising response to climate change at each location. There is also a divergence in machinery investment response between high versus low rainfall locations, with increases and decreases in work rates respectively being forecast. However, as illustrated for a few locations, the changes in investment in work rate within a broadly similar rainfall region are not uniform; principally due to climate change differently affecting the pattern of yield response to time of sowing at each location.
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Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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Idioma: |
Inglês
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Identificador: |
29735
http://purl.umn.edu/6011
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Relação: |
Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society - 2008>2008 Conference (52nd), February 5-8, 2008, Canberra, Australia
Conference Paper
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Formato: |
18
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