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Lansford, Vernon; Madison, Daniel; Thompson, Wyatt; Willott, Brian; Adams, Gary M.; Babcock, Bruce A.; Beghin, John C.; Mohanty, Samarendu; Fuller, Frank H.; Chaudhary, Sudhir; Fabiosa, Jacinto F.; Kovarik, Karen; Hart, Chad E.; Fang, Cheng; Kaus, Phillip J.; Naik, Manta; Womack, Abner W.; Young, Robert E., II; Suhler, Gregg; Westhoff, Patrick C.; Trujillo, Joe; Brown, D. Scott; Zimmel, Peter; Mills, Russell C.; Meyer, Seth D.; Kruse, John R.. |
Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries; Livestock Production/Industries. |
Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/32049 |
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Babcock, Bruce A.; Pautsch, Gregory R.. |
This paper estimates the potential value of switching from applying nitrogen fertilizer according to SRT to applying it according to VRT in 12 Iowa counties. Change in yields, nitrogen use, and profits are estimated for individual fields and entire countries as farmers move from SRT to VRT. The county-level results indicate modest increases in returns over fertilizer costs, ranging form $7.43 per acre to $1.49 per acre. The county-level VRT production benefits are increases in yields ranging form 0.05 to 0.50 bushels per acre and reduction in production costs ranging from $1.19 to $6.83 per acre. The VRT environmental benefit for the entire study area is quite large, ranging from 77 to 172 tons of nitrogen. Increases in the price of corn and nitrogen... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries. |
Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18486 |
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Hayes, Dermot J.; Babcock, Bruce A.; Fabiosa, Jacinto F.; Tokgoz, Simla; Elobeid, Amani E.; Yu, Tun-Hsiang (Edward); Dong, Fengxia; Hart, Chad E.; Chavez, Eddie C.; Pan, Suwen; Carriquiry, Miguel A.; Dumortier, Jerome. |
We examined four evolution paths of the biofuel sector using a partial equilibrium world agricultural sector model in CARD that includes the new RFS in the 2007 EISA, a two-way relationship between fossil energy and biofuel markets, and a new trend toward corn oil extraction in ethanol plants. At one extreme, one scenario eliminates all support to the biofuel sector when the energy price is low, while the other extreme assumes no distribution bottleneck in ethanol demand growth when the energy price is high. The third scenario considers a pure market force driving ethanol demand growth because of the high energy price, while the last is a policy-induced shock with removal of the biofuel tax credit when the energy price is high. Standard results hold where... |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Biofuel; EISA; Ethanol; Tax credit; World agricultural sector model; Agribusiness; Consumer/Household Economics; Crop Production/Industries; Demand and Price Analysis; International Relations/Trade; Livestock Production/Industries; Political Economy; Production Economics; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Q13; Q18; Q38. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53093 |
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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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Hurley, Terrance M.; Babcock, Bruce A.; Hellmich, Richard L.. |
Genetically engineered crops offer farmers a new option for controlling pests. The high efficacy of these pesticidal crops, combined with the potential for widespread adoption, has raised concerns that pest resistance may prematurely diminish their value. In response to these concerns, the Environmental Protection Agency requires resistance management plans. Current resistance management plans rely on a high-dose refuge strategy. This analysis extends the current framework for evaluating high-dose refuge strategies to include a measure of agricultural productivity and conventional pesticide use. The economic tradeoff relative to agricultural productivity, conventional pesticide use, and pest resistance is assessed when Bt corn is planted to control... |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries. |
Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31156 |
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Babcock, Bruce A.; Barr, Kanlaya J.; Carriquiry, Miguel A.. |
The U.S. ethanol industry is lobbying hard for an extension of existing ethanol import tariffs and blenders tax credits before they expire at the end of 2010. The purpose of this study is to examine the likely consequences on the U.S. ethanol industry, corn producers, taxpayers, fuel blenders, and fuel consumers if current policy is not extended. Impacts of different ethanol policies in both 2011 and 2014 were estimated. Estimates were obtained by developing a new stochastic model that calculates market-clearing prices for U.S. ethanol, Brazilian ethanol, and U.S. corn. The model is stochastic because market-clearing prices are calculated for 5,000 random draws of corn yields and wholesale gasoline prices. Key assumptions in this study are that the... |
Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Blenders tax credit; Brazilian ethanol; Ethanol import tariffs; U.S. ethanol policy.; Crop Production/Industries; Demand and Price Analysis; International Relations/Trade; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92383 |
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Wu, JunJie; Babcock, Bruce A.. |
Conservation program administered by USDA have traditionally been voluntary, with USDDA providing technical and fiscal assistance to farmers. This tradition is continued din the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996. Under these programs, farmers commit themselves to adopting a land management practice and, in turn, the government provides technical and financial assistance. Our analysis suggest that these voluntary programs are more efficient than a program that mandates adoption if and only if the per acre social cost of government expenditure under these program is less than the largest per acre farmer loss under the mandatory approach plus the additional implementation and enforcement cost. This necessary and sufficient condition is... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy. |
Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18500 |
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Carriquiry, Miguel A.; Babcock, Bruce A.. |
New production technologies, consumers who are more discriminating, and the need for improved coordination are among the forces driving the move from spot markets to contracts. Some worry that this tendency will result in the disappearance of spot markets, or at least that they will become too thin to be of help for an efficient price discovery process. Other authors point to the reduction in welfare of independent producers resulting from contracting in oligopsonistic industries. While a large body of literature is available tackling the contract versus spot market decision, much less is known about the reasons that lead to procurement in both markets. This paper provides a simple model to study how fundamental economic factors influence the contracting... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Contract markets; Contracting in agriculture; Specialty grains; Spot markets; Yield risk; Marketing. |
Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18634 |
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Monchuk, Daniel C.; Miranowski, John A.; Hayes, Dermot J.; Babcock, Bruce A.. |
In this paper we examine more closely some of the forces that underlie economic growth at the county level. In an effort to describe a much more comprehensive regional economic growth model, we address a variety of different growth hypotheses by introducing a large number of growth related variables. When formulating our hypotheses and specifying our growth model we make liberal use of GIS mapping software to "paint" a picture of where growth spots exist and why. Our empirical estimation indicates amenities, state and local tax burdens, population, amount of agricultural activity, and demographics have important economic growth impacts. |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/20369 |
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