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Assisting decision-making in Queensland barley production through chance constrained programming
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Gali,   Jyothi; Brown,   Colin G.
A chance constrained programming model is developed to assist Queensland barley growers make varietal and agronomic decisions in the face of changing product demands and volatile production conditions. Unsuitable or overlooked in many risk programming applications, the chance constrained programming approach nonetheless aptly captures the single‐stage decision problem faced by barley growers of whether to plant lower‐yielding but potentially higher‐priced malting varieties, given a particular expectation of meeting malting grade standards. Different expectations greatly affect the optimal mix of malting and feed barley activities. The analysis highlights the suitability of chance constrained programming to this specific class of farm decision problem.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117838

Improving the Economic Decision-Making Capability and Viability of Chinese Wool Textile Mills
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Brown,   Colin G.; Waldron,   Scott A.; Longworth,   John W.; Zhao,   Y.
The successful restructuring of Chinese industries is of immense importance not only for the continued development of China but also to the stability of the world economy. The transformation of the Chinese wool textile industry illustrates well the many problems and pressures currently facing most Chinese industries. The Chinese wool textile industry has undergone major upheaval and restructuring in its drive to modernize and take advantage of developments in world textile markets. Macro level ownership and administrative reforms are well advanced as is the uptake of new technology and equipment. However, the changing market and institutional environment also demands an increasing level of sophistication in mill management decisions including product...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: China; Wool textile mills; Industry transition; Decision-making models; Agribusiness; Livestock Production/Industries.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25696

FOOD SAFETY IN FOOD SECURITY AND FOOD TRADE; CASE STUDY -- BEEF INDUSTRY IN CHINA
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Brown,   Colin G.; Waldron,   Scott A.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; International Relations/Trade.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16553

China’s Agricultural Modernisation Program: an assessment of its sustainability and impacts in the case of the high-value beef chain
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Waldron,   Scott A.; Brown,   Colin G.; Longworth,   John W.
China has embarked on a major program to modernise agricultural and agribusiness structures with far reaching implications for rural development, international competitiveness / trade and food safety. There are, however, few studies that examine in detail how the modernisation program has proceeded, its’ sustainability and impacts. This paper aims to provide such as assessment through a series of integrated budget analyses of participants in the modern, high value beef chain. The paper concludes that rather than attempting to skip development phases by fast-tracking the development of modern structures in high-value agrifood chains, China should pursue a more incremental and facilitative approach based around developing structures in mid-value agrifood...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: China; Agriculture; Modernisation; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Farm Management; Industrial Organization; Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing; Political Economy; Production Economics; O12; Q13; Q18.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50784

ANALYSIS OF INTEGRATION BETWEEN QUEENSLAND FEED AND MALTING BARLEY MARKETS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Gali,   Jyothi; Brown,   Colin G.
Barley can be differentiated into feed and malting barley based on its end-use markets. Substitutability both in supply and in demand complicates analysis of price information in the barley market. The paper examines the price linkages between feed and malting barley in the Queensland barley market by using cointegration and error correction models. Malting barley prices respond to restore equilibrium relationships with corresponding feed barley prices in the long run, but not vice versa. Thus there appears to be a price leadership role for feed barley, and one-way substitutability and quality differences in the barley market.
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Barley; Cointegration; Substitutability; Quality; Demand and Price Analysis; Marketing.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123649

Reconciling industry policy and comparative advantage: the regional distribution of China’s cattle and beef industry
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Waldron,   Scott A.; Brown,   Colin G.
Much has been written in recent years on ‘local state corporatism’, centre-region relations, government and enterprise reform and on sustainable rural and agricultural development in China. Based on some of the theoretical underpinnings of this literature, and on extensive fieldwork in the full range of administrative levels, this paper presents an institutional approach to one Chinese rural industry. For a number of reasons, the Chinese cattle and beef industry serves as a highly revealing case study. While the industry only began developing along commercial lines in the 1990s, institutional forces have been instrumental, and perhaps more important than market forces, in forging the industry along its particular development path. The paper highlights the...
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123736

On Some Aspects of Organizational Efficiency in the Queensland Cattle Slaughtering Industry
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Brown,   Colin G.; Drynan,   Ross G.
An examination based on stochastic plant location analysis was made of organizational efficiency in the Queensland cattle slaughtering industry. Short-run models were used to highlight forces influencing commodity flows and plant utilization levels in the industry. These models were also used to explore effects of freight equalization arrangements. Freight equalization was found to involve annual costs of resource misallocation of the order of $1 million. Potential efficiency gains through improved plant locations and sizes were also estimated and found to be at least $4.4 million.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness.
Ano: 1986
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12579

Book reviews
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Vanselow,   Barbara; Griffith,   Garry R.; Thorpe,   Sally; Connors,   Tom; Francis,   Michael; Brown,   Colin G.; Wittwer,   Glyn; Zhao,   Xueyan.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117733

Role of agriculture in the livelihoods of farm households in Tibet
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Brown,   Colin G.; Waldron,   Scott A.
In its ongoing efforts to identify more socially inclusive forms of development that target households in rural areas of Tibet, the Chinese central government has begun to focus more attention and resources on agricultural modernisation and development. Although agriculture continues to play a pivotal role in rural areas of Tibet, the nature of agriculture and rural society is changing.3 This paper first highlights some of the macro‐level changes that are occurring and some of the underlying drivers behind these changes. It then describes a model used to understand farm household systems at a micro‐level for the main agricultural areas of the Yalong river and its tributaries . The models explore the impact of agricultural innovations and changing...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development; International Development.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100729

A heterogeneous-agent model with district-level constraints: an application to livestock development in Gansu, China
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Komarek,   Adam M.; Waldron,   Scott A.; Brown,   Colin G.
This paper develops a heterogeneous-agent model to assess the impacts of removing lucerne growing subsidies, increasing livestock numbers and including district-level equilibrium conditions on optimal farm plans in the Qingyang district of Gansu Province, China. The model is a five-year dynamic linear program that solves across 96 farm households whilst incorporating district-level constraints. The approach used allows us to observe seasonal variations in incomes, infer the distribution of a policy shock among households and highlight trade patterns at the district level. The results suggest that without lucerne growing subsidies the total area of lucerne grown by all modelled households falls by 18%. Increasing livestock numbers by 25% reduces net...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Heterogeneous-agent model; District-level constraints; Livestock; China.; Farm Management.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100573

ANALYSIS OF RANGELAND DEGRADATION USING STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Passmore,   J.G.; Brown,   Colin G.
Degradation of arid rangeland, and efforts to control that degradation, have become topical issues. However, the inherent characteristics of the rangeland, and the intertemporal nature of the problem, complicate the analysis of degradation issues in the search for more appropriate rangeland policies. Stochastic dynamic programming is examined as one means of allowing for those complexities. Using the case of the Queensland mulga rangelands, optimal stocking rates are shown to rise with lower property sizes, higher discount rates, higher wool prices and declining risk aversion. Importantly, the analysis reveals that a strategy of high stocking rates with the potential for rangeland degradation is an optimal response to the economic and social factors that...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 1991
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22765

Land reform, household specialisation and rural development in China
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Brown,   Colin G.; Kai,   Chen.
Recent land reforms in China have sought to address fundamental problems with the Household Production Responsibility System such as land fragmentation. Primarily the reforms have targeted land productivity and grain output. However, the reforms have had a much broader effect on rural development as they have allowed a degree of household specialisation in non-grain activities both on and off the farm. Based on information collected from household surveys and fieldwork in Shandong and other provinces, this paper reports on some of the impacts of land reform on productivity, household specialisation and rural development.
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123790

Lifting the Wool Curtain: Recent Reforms and New Opportunities in the Chinese Wool Market with Special Reference to the "Up-country" Mills
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Brown,   Colin G.; Longworth,   John W.
From being an insignificant buyer of Australian wool at the start of the 1980s, China had emerged as Australia's major, if somewhat erratic, customer by the 1992/93 season. Continued development of Sino-Australian trade in wool is vital to the future of the Australian wool-growing industry. This article describes recent market and trade reforms in China and examines their likely impact on wool imports. Particular attention is devoted to the effects the recent changes will have on the up-country mills which represent a poorly understood but potentially significant new market for Australian wool. In many respects the problems/opportunities identified in relation to the up-country mills also exist for many other mills in China which, for various reasons, have...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Marketing.
Ano: 1994
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12321

PLANT LOCATION ANALYSIS USING DISCRETE STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Brown,   Colin G.; Drynan,   Ross G.
A plant location model with two major aspects is outlined. First, discrete stochastic programming is used to handle variability in supplies and demands. Second, the cost structure of plants is modelled in more detail and with more realism than is usual. Results from applying the model to the Queensland cattle slaughtering industry demonstrate the inappropriateness of using traditional deterministic plant location models to analyse problems with major stochastic elements. Deterministic models yield plant locations, sizes, throughputs, commodity flows and implications which differ markedly from those generated by stochastic models in which plant sizes and locations are optimally matched to variable fat cattle supplies. In addition, the traditional...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods.
Ano: 1986
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22876

Transforming Lives with Livestock-based Agribusiness
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Waldron,   Scott A.; Brown,   Colin G.; Longworth,   John W.
This paper is concerned with improving the livelihoods of rural households in China — especially those involved in ruminant livestock production — in the context of market-oriented reform. Two broad categories of household are considered — diversified households and specialised households. Livelihoods are largely determined first, by the way the households interface with the industries or industry in which they are involved and secondly, by the development paths of these industries. Traditionally, the dominant Chinese approach to industry development is policy rather than market driven. Interventionist policies are introduced that target the construction of production bases with the aim of increasing physical output. At a later stage, attention turns to...
Tipo: Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Livestock Production/Industries.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124014

The Integration of Rural Households into Ruminant Livestock Industries in China
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Waldron,   Scott A.; Brown,   Colin G.; Longworth,   John W.
A major determinant of rural development in China is the way by which rural households integrate with rural industries. Three forms of integration – market integration, vertical integration and integration through local groups – are investigated. Policy measures that may facilitate household integration, household specialisation and market segmentation are identified. Findings for the ruminant livestock sector are widely applicable to other agricultural industries in China.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: China; Rural development; Livestock; Markets; Vertical integration; Livestock Production/Industries; Q13; Q18; L1.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25318

When is the price right?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Franco-Dixon,   Mary Ann; Brown,   Colin G.; Riethmuller,   Paul C.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10370

Building economic decision-making capabilities of Chinese wool textile mills
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Brown,   Colin G.; Waldron,   Scott A.; Longworth,   John W.; Yutian,   Zhao.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/113924