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  • Program of Research on the Economics of Invasive Species Management Fiscal 2003-2011 Activities
    Craig Osteen / William Hahn / United Economic Research Service (ERS)
    Under the Program of Research on the Economics of Invasive Species Management (PREISM), ERS conducts intramural research and funds extramural research to support the economic basis of decisionmaking concerning invasive species issues, policies, and programs. The report, Program of Research on the Economics of Invasive Species Management: Fiscal 2003-2011 Activities details the ...
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  • Milk Pricing in the United States
    Alden C. Manchester / Donald Blayney / United Economic Research Service (ERS)
    Over the past 125 years, a complex system of both public and private pricing institutions has evolved to deal with milk production, assembly, and distribution. The pricing of milk in the United States is part market-determined, and part publicly administered through a wide variety of pricing regulations. This report examines the many facets of pricing milk as it moves from the ...
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  • Factors Affecting U.S. Beef Consumption
    Departm Economic Research Service (ERS)
    Beef is a highly consumed meat in the United States, averaging 67 pounds per person per year. Findings based on the 1994-96 and 1998 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII) indicate that most beef was eaten at home. Annual beef consumption per person was highest in the Midwest (73 pounds), followed by the South and West (65 pounds each), and the Northeast (63 p...
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  • Imports From China and Food Safety Issues
    Departm Economic Research Service (ERS)
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) increased attention to food imports from China is an indicator of safety concerns as imported food becomes more common in the United States. U.S. food imports from China more than tripled in value between 2001 and 2008. Addressing safety risks associated with these imports is difficult because of the vast array of products from Chin...
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  • Climate Change Policy and the Adoption of Methane Digesters on Livestock Operations
    Nigel Key / United Economic Research Service (ERS) / US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
    Methane digesters-biogas recovery systems that use methane from manure to generate electricity-have not been widely adopted in the United States because costs have exceeded benefits to operators. Burning methane in a digester reduces greenhouse gas emissions from manure management. A policy or program that pays producers for these emission reductions-through a carbon offset mar...
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  • Regionalism, Federalism, and Taxation
    Departm Economic Research Service (ERS)
    This report documents an applied general equilibrium model of the United States. The model features explicit treatment of Federal, State, and local taxes and is segmented into 10 distinct subregions. These subregions engage in inter- and intraregional trade, as well as international trade. Each region is distinguished by its unique composition of industries, capital markets, an...
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  • Changing Structure of Global Food Consumption and Trade
    Departm Economic Research Service (ERS)
    Higher income, urbanization, other demographic shifts, improved transportation, and consumer perceptions regarding quality and safety are changing global food consumption patterns. Shifts in food consumption have led to increased trade and changes in the composition of world agricultural trade. Given different diets, food expenditure and food budget responses to income and pric...
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  • Community Food Security Assessment Toolkit
    Departm Economic Research Service (ERS)
    This report provides a toolkit of standardized measurement tools for assessing various aspects of community food security. It includes a general guide to community assessment and focused materials for examining six basic assessment components related to community food security. These include guides for profiling general community characteristics and community food resources as ...
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  • Effects of EBT Customer Service Waivers on Food Stamp Recipients
    Departm Economic Research Service (ERS)
    Most State agencies are now using electronic benefits transfer (EBT) systems to issue food stamp benefits. To promote operational efficiency, some States have received waivers of certain rules governing EBT use. An exploratory study was conducted to ascertain the effects of these waivers on food stamp recipients. The results show that two of the waivers-those allowing recipient...
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  • China’s Food and Agriculture
    Departm Economic Research Service (ERS)
    Assessment of issues that will affect China’s future trends in consumption, production, import, and export of food and agricultural commodities. A series of 13 articles cover China’s food consumption, marketing, international trade, agricultural policy, transportation infrastructure, regional diversity, livestock sector, biotechnology, water and irrigation policy, land tenure s...
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  • Government Patenting and Technology Transfer
    Departm Economic Research Service (ERS)
    This report examines the use of intellectual property rights in Federal technology transfer, focusing primarily on the Agricultural Research Service (ARS). ARS uses patenting and licensing when a technology requires additional development by a private sector partner to yield a marketable product. Licensing revenue is not a major motivation. Greater use of patenting and licensin...
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    17,23 €

  • Fruit and Tree Nuts Outlook
    Agnes Perez / Kristy Plattner / United Economic Research Service (ERS)
    The Economic Research Service (ERS) is part of the U.S. Department of Agricultural (USDA). Its focus is to analyze and distribute economic information and research. Their results provide decision makers the information they need to run business, create policies and understand the farm, rural and food economy.Total citrus production forecast to remain stable in 2012/13.This wor...
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  • Sugar & Sweeteners Outlook
    Stephen Haley / United Economic Research Service (ERS)
    The Economic Research Service (ERS) is part of the U.S. Department of Agricultural (USDA). Its focus is to analyze and distribute economic information and research. Their results provide decision makers the information they need to run business, create policies and understand the farm, rural and food economy.The Sugar and Sweetener Outlook for February 2013 reviews the sugar a...
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  • U.S. Beef Industry
    Kenneth H. Matthews / William Hahn / United Economic Research Service (ERS)
    In early 1996, the peak in the current cycle of cattle inventories coincided with a long list of negative factors--negative returns at the farm and feedlot, record-high feed grain prices, a severe drought in 1995-96, widening farm-retail price spreads, a low farmers’ share of the consumers’ Choice beef dollar, and reports of high profits for beefpackers. This confluence created...
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  • A Comparison of Household Food Security in Canada and the United States
    Heather Hopwood / Mark Nord / United Economic Research Service (ERS)
    Food security-consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life-is essential for health and good nutrition. The extent to which a nation’s population achieves food security is an indication of its material and social well-being. Differences in the prevalence of household-level food insecurity between Canada and the United States are described at the national level an...
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  • Canned Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in the United States
    Hodan Farah Wells / Jean C. Buzby / United Economic Research Service (ERS)
    The Senate Report 111-039 accompanying S. 1406, the 2010 Agriculture Appropriations Bill, requested that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS) prepare and publish a report regarding consumer perceptions of canned fruits and vegetables. In the absence of consumer surveys, the report relies on consumption and spending estimates to reveal atti...
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  • Greenhouse Tomatoes Change the Dynamics of the North American Fresh Tomato Industry
    Linda Calvin / Roberta Cook / United Economic Research Service (ERS)
    The North American greenhouse tomato industry has grown rapidly since the early 1990s and now plays a major role in the fresh tomato industry. However, relatively little is known about this new industry, in part because of the lack of reliable production, trade, and price data. Both analysts and industry members will benefit from a more comprehensive understanding of the rising...
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  • Consolidation in U.S. Meatpacking
    James MacDonald / Michael Ollinger / United Economic Research Service (ERS)
    Meatpacking consolidated rapidly in the last two decades: slaughter plants became much larger, and concentration increased as smaller firms left the industry. We use establishment-based data from the U.S. Census Bureau to describe consolidation and to identify the roles of scale economies and technological change in driving consolidation. Through the 1970’s, larger plants paid ...
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  • Equilibrium Displacement Mathematical Programming Models
    David H. Harrington / Robert Dubman / United Economic Research Service (ERS)
    The objective of this research is to extend and generalize the equilibrium displacement methodology by combining it with mathematical programming methods and existing knowledge of farm sector relationships to develop sectoral adjustment models that can operate in pure competition, monopoly/monopsony, or mixed-competition. A model of the U.S. agricultural sector at the national ...
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    17,23 €

  • Regional Environment and Agriculture Programming Model (REAP)
    Mark Peters / Robert Johansson / United Economic Research Service (ERS)
    The Regional Environment and Agriculture Programming Model (REAP), facilitates scenario-or 'what if'-analyses by showing how changes in technology, commodity supply or demand, or farm, resource, environmental, or trade policy could affect a host of performance indicators important to decisionmakers and stakeholders. This report describes its theoretical and modeling system spec...
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  • Recent Population Trends in the United States With Emphasis on Rural Areas
    Linda Foreman / United Economic Research Service (ERS) / US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
    This document is part of the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA)Rural Development Publications collection. This collection includes publicationsthat relate to rural development in America, including from such series as RuralDevelopment Research Reports, Rural Development Perspectives, AgriculturalEconomic Reports, and Agriculture Information Bulletins, as well as s...
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  • Behavioral Economic Concepts To Encourage Healthy Eating in School Cafeterias
    Departm Economic Research Service (ERS)
    Changing small factors that influence consumer choice may lead to healthier eating within controlled settings, such as school cafeterias. This report describes a behavioral experiment in a college cafeteria to assess the effects of various payment options and menu selection methods on food choices. The results indicate that payment options, such as cash or debit cards, can sign...
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  • The Ethanol Decade
    Departm Economic Research Service (ERS)
    The recent 9-billion-gallon increase in corn-based ethanol production, which resulted from a combination of rising gasoline prices and a suite of Federal bioenergy policies, provides evidence of how farmers altered their land-use decisions in response to increased demand for corn. As some forecasts had suggested, corn acreage increased mostly on farms that previously specialize...
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  • U.S. Fresh Produce Markets
    Departm Economic Research Service (ERS)
    Retail consolidation, technological change in production and marketing, and growing consumer demand for produce have altered the traditional market relationships between producers, wholesalers, and retailers. Increasingly, produce suppliers are asked to provide additional marketing services and incentives in exchange for volume purchases and other commitments by buyers. This re...
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  • Informing Food and Nutrition Assistance Policy
    Victor Oliveira / United Economic Research Service (ERS)
    Since 1998, Congress has provided funds to ERS to study and evaluate the Nation’s domestic food and nutrition assistance programs. ERS has become the premier source of food and nutrition assistance research in the United States, sponsoring over 600 publications on a wide range of topics related to food and nutrition assistance. This report, prepared at the 10-year anniversary o...
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  • The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
    Gerald Plato / Michael Adjemian / United Economic Research Service (ERS)
    The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act makes significant changes to Federal regulation of the U.S. over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market, with the goals of improving market transparency and reducing systemic default risk. This article reviews some important features of the new law and discusses their potential impact on agribusiness, much of which wil...
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  • Recreation, Tourism, and Rural Well-Being
    Dennis Brown / Richard Reeder / United Economic Research Service (ERS)
    The promotion of recreation and tourism has been both praised and criticized as a rural development strategy. This study uses regression analysis to assess the effect of recreation and tourism development on socioeconomic conditions in rural recreation counties. The findings imply that recreation and tourism development contributes to rural well-being, increasing local employme...
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  • Impacts of Higher Energy Prices on Agriculture and Rural Economies
    Paul Westcott / Ron Sands / United Economic Research Service (ERS)
    Agricultural production is sensitive to changes in energy prices, either through energy consumed directly or through energy-related inputs such as fertilizer. A number of factors can affect energy prices faced by U.S. farmers and ranchers, including developments in the oil and natural gas markets, and energy taxes or subsidies. Climate change policies could also affect energy p...
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  • Food Stamps and Obesity
    Departm Economic Research Service (ERS)
    Results from reviewed studies indicate that for most participants in the Food Stamp Program-children, nonelderly men, and the elderly-use of food stamp benefits does not result in an increase in either Body Mass Index (BMI) or the likelihood of being overweight or obese. However, for nonelderly women, who account for 28 percent of the food stamp caseload, some evidence suggests...
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  • Economics of Food Labeling
    Elise Golan / Fred Kuchler / United Economic Research Service (ERS)
    Federal intervention in food labeling is often proposed with the aim of achieving a social goal such as improving human health and safety, mitigating environmental hazards, averting international trade disputes, or supporting domestic agricultural and food manufacturing industries. Economic theory suggests, however, that mandatory food-labeling requirements are best suited to a...
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