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the impact of regulating greenhouse gas emissions on livestock trade flows using a commodity specific gravity model … approach. This study finds that regulating greenhouse gas emissions has a negative effect on livestock trade flows from …
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examine recently revised Clean Water Act (CWA) regulations targeting large-scale livestock operations to identify and quantify …
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The rail industry is an integral part of the agricultural transportation system of the United States. For producers and shippers of bulk commodities, railroads are particularly important for the movement to end users, many of whom are located long distances from the farms. Information on rail...
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This study investigates the long term adjustments to drought by crop and livestock sectors using a dynamic partial … highly disaggregated livestock production sectors in tandem with observed and projected quarterly data on U.S. drought … result in model predicted crop price increases that cause livestock inventory reductions due to reduced expected future …
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Climate change could affect the costs and returns of livestock production by altering the thermal environment of … animals thereby affecting animal health, reproduction, and the efficiency by which livestock convert feed into retained … products (especially meat and milk). In the United States, concentrated livestock operations are located in a variety of …
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Studies of total factor productivity in livestock production are rare, but when available provide useful information … especially in the context of developing countries such as China where livestock is becoming more important in the domestic … agricultural economy. We estimate total factor productivity (TFP) for four major livestock products in China employing the …
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productivity (TFP) growth for crops and livestock accounting for input-output allocation. This paper extends previous work on TFP … measurement for livestock into ruminants and non-ruminant productivity measurement, given the differences in productivity growth … most of the productivity growth within the livestock sector. Given the rapid rates of productivity growth observed recently …
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