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| Claeys, Dakerlia; Lauwers, Ludwig H.; Marchand, Fleur L.; Van Meensel, Jef; Buysse, Jeroen; Van der Straeten, Bart; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| The paper discusses an ex ante evaluation of the derogation on the Nitrates Directive for Flanders, Belgium, which is a case of intensive but highly productive livestock areas. The aim is to develop an accurate simulation model to detect small differences in manure surpluses caused by changes of manure production and/or utilization. The system of models consists of various modules to fine tune the calculations of manure production, fertilizing behaviour and manure allocation and disposal on and off farm. The results show that derogation may cause the existing manure surpluses to expire, if only nitrogen limits are considered and no transactions costs are taken into account. When also phosphate fertilization limits are considered, the increase in manuring... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Nitrates Directive; Derogation; Modelling; Environmental Economics and Policy; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44436 |
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| Marchand, Fleur L.; Buysse, Jeroen; Campens, V.; Claeys, Dakerlia; Fernagut, Bruno; Lauwers, Ludwig H.; Van der Straeten, Bart; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| Current thoughts on CAP changes, e.g. the "Health Check", emphasize the necessity to move away from payments based on historical receipts towards a "flatter rate" system. The aim of current research is to simulate the impact of a flat rate system (equal payments per hectare of cultivated land) compared to the current historical system (payments based on individual historic entitlements). Impact on production and income of arable, dairy and cattle farms of two different flat rate scenario's, is assessed with a farm-based sector model for Flanders. The model maximizes income at farm level, calibrated to observed farming behavior in 2001-2003. Farm data can be selected by farm type, size and region, simulations could be run for specific sub sectors, size... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Positive Mathematical Programming; Farm model; Common Agricultural Policy; Payment Entitlements.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Farm Management; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6681 |
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| Van der Straeten, Bart; Buysse, Jeroen; Marchand, Fleur L.; Lauwers, Ludwig H.; Claeys, Dakerlia; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| In 2005, 30% of the Flemish farms faced a manure excess, while at aggregated level still 9.7% of the emission rights were unused. This means that, despite the various possibilities, Flemish farmers do not succeed in an effective exchange of manure between farms. In current paper is shown how inorganic fertilizer use influences the use and exchange of organic nitrogen. Because of the mutual interdependency between organic and inorganic nitrogen emission rights (or quota), inorganic nitrogen use limits the emission rights for organic nitrogen. Utilisation of these emission rights are analysed as a trade-offs choice between plant productivity (use of inorganic nitrogen) and manure disposal, as the major abatement alternative of manure production. Farmers... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Manure abatement; Nutrient emission rights; Tobit model; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43642 |
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| Buysse, Jeroen; Van der Straeten, Bart; Claeys, Dakerlia; Lauwers, Ludwig H.; Marchand, Fleur L.; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| To explain over- and underuse of available quota, Buysse et al. (2007) have integrated the shadow cost of the quota constraint in a quota flexibility function in a positive mathematical programming model. This method and central hypothesis, formulated and tested for the case of Belgian sugar beet farms, is in current paper extended and confirmed for the cases of Flemish dairy quota and manure emission rights. Despite the different organisation, objectives and implementations of the diverse quota systems, the results are similar. A higher utilisation of quota is significantly driven by the quota rent, but farm characteristics are also important and the effect declines with increasing quota rent. Regardless the quota, the dairy quota flexibility behaviour of... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Quota; Flexibility; Positive Mathematical Programming; Farm model; Common Agricultural Policy; Agricultural and Food Policy; Demand and Price Analysis; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6640 |
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