While these programs can be important risk management tools for farmers, they may also result in unintended, environmentally damaging actions.Roger ClaassenFernando CarriazoJoseph C. CooperDaniel HellersteinUni...
Previous studies have shown that shade trees in cacao and coffee are important habitats for inter-American migratory birds. A survey of 21 cacao farmers al... J Dittami - 《Ethology》 被引量: 61发表: 2010年 Adjustment and poverty in Mexican agriculture : how farmers'wealth affects supply res...
Less than one-fifth of government payments go to farmers in financial distress who primarily rely on farming for their livelihood. Farm programs do not ensure long-run farm prosperity because program benefits are quickly incorporated into higher prices and costs of land, production facilities, and ...
agricultural programsfarm numbersfarm structuremarket for agricultural landQ120Q150Q180If a land price is to be observed, there must be trades of land. If the aggregate quantity of land in agriculture is fixed, those trades must be among farmers. This paper presents a model in which farmers ...
farm subsidies have benefits that extendbeyond farmers, while others maintain that those subsidies have negative impacts forfarmers and the general public. This paper will discuss the common economic argumentsfor farm programs. The goal of this process is to separate fact from fiction and help those...
In the 1920s demand for American farm products fell, as European countries began to recover from World War I and started austerity (紧缩) programs to reduce their imports.The result was a sharp drop in farm prices.This period was more disastrous for farmers than earlier times had been, becau...
The officials said payments couldn’t be calculated until after harvests come in. Brad Karmen, the USDA’s assistant deputy administrator for farm programs, noted that the wheat harvest is already in, so wheat farmers could get payments sooner than other growers. ...
Soon most farmers used too much fertilizer and pesticide. Farmers in dry regions enjoyed an era of cheap water, obtained from publicly subsidized irrigation systems or from pumping groundwater using, inexpensive energy. The soil too was expendable as demand grew for U.S. agricultural products. ...
In different seasons, the volunteers can participate in different kinds of work related to the cultivation of coffee. From mid-October to March, volunteers work the fields like farmers, loading ripe red coffee beans into sacks and transporting them to the processing plant. ...
The results suggest farmers in Alberta have significant tax and social program advantages and that, for the base scenario, these advantages outweighed government farm program and production cost advantages enjoyed by the Montana farmer. Taxes and social program advantages became relatively less important ...