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August 1, 2011 Land Buying and Valuing
ag … Valuing and Buying U.S. Farm Land with a Consideration … a Consideration of Non-Ag Features August 2011 …
August 20, 2013 Land Buying and Valuing
Valuing and Buying U.S. Farm Land with a Consideration … a Consideration of Non-Ag Features August 2011 … 2 Valuing and Buying U.S. Farm Land with a Consideration …
July 1, 2010 Animal ID & Traceability
Service Cow-Calf Producer Preferences for Voluntary Animal Identification and Traceability Systems A contentious issue among U.S. livestock pro- ducers is … adopted by the majority of U.S. livestock producers.1 In … widely implemented in the U.S. cattle industry is the …
April 17, 2024 Hog Pricing
focuses on risk management and policy solutions that lead to strategic … Marketing Service (AMS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture … is, contract specification detail. We echo what we heard from …
October 1, 2015 USDA METSS Project
…               Contents  Macroeconomic Effects on Poverty Rate: A Case Study of Northern Ghana ............................................... 1  Income, Expenditure Shares, Food Choices and Food Security in Northern Ghana ................................... 16  Do Adult Equivalence Scales Matter in Poverty Estimates? A Case Study from Ghana ............................. 23  A Cautionary Note on Comparing Poverty Prevalence Rates ..................................................................... 43  Securing Africa’s Middle Class: The Case of Northern Ghana .................................................................... 53  The Effect of Transaction Costs on Grain and Oilseed Farmers’ Market Participation in Sub‐Saharan  Africa:  Recent Evidence from Northern Ghana ......................................................................................... 64  Reducing Gender Differences in Agricultural Performance in Northern Ghana ........................................ 82  Production Efficiency of Smallholder Farms in Northern Ghana ................................................................ 99  Does Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Matter in Children’s Health Status? Insights from Northern  Ghana ........................................................................................................................................................ 115  Recent Evidence of Health Effects of Women Empowerment: A Case Study of Northern Ghana ........... 130      1    Macroeconomic Effects on Poverty Rate: A Case Study of Northern  Ghana  Yacob Zereyesus and Vincent Amanor‐Boadu  Department of Agricultural Economics  Kansas State University    March 2015  Introduction  The prevalence of extreme poverty is externally determined by the established poverty line. In recent  years, it has been based on a daily per capita expenditure of $1.25, measured in 2005 Purchasing Power  Parity (PPP).  Using PPP aims to eliminate the effect of exchange rates.  PPP is based on the Law of One Price – in the absence of transaction costs and trade barriers, identical  …
January 1, 2009 Animal ID & Traceability
21.45    Additional scenarios included estimating the size of beef export demand  and domestic beef demand gains that would each individually just  completely pay for NAIS adoption by producers in the beef industry.  The magnitude of beef export market demand increase that would  encourage beef producers (cow/calf, backgrounders, feeders, dairy,  auction markets, and packers) to adopt full animal ID and tracing is  shown in figure 1.  Full animal ID and tracing with 30, 50, 70, and 90%  industry adoption rates could be completely paid for with increases in  beef export demand.  A 23% increase in beef export demand would  completely pay for 70% adoption of full animal ID and tracing in the US  beef herd over a 10‐year period.  No other benefits beyond these would  be necessary to make the investment in NAIS economically viable.      …