•In Recent Years, Wine Makers have gone Crazy over Climate Change! •"If you look at most of the places growing grapes worldwide, many of them have been right at the cool-limit margins and so a little bit of warming has made them more suitable" (Dr. Greg Jones, The University of Oregon)....

In the New England region, the U.S. Department of Agriculture only reports milk cost of production (COP) for Maine and Vermont. Basing Connecticut dairy support payments on USDA COP data for a New England state complies with Connecticut Public Acts 09-229 and 11-48. In the past two years,...

This report, produced at the request of the Dairy Committee of the Connecticut Farm Bureau Association, assess es the economic and dairy farm sustainability impacts of Connecticut’s Public Act 09 - 229 . Th e Act established a dairy farm sustainability and safety net program by providing...

In July 2009, Connecticut Public Act 09-229 established an agricultural sustainability account to provide financial assistance to Connecticut milk producers during times when the federal milk pay price falls below a minimum sustainable monthly cost of production. This legislation mandates that...

This article examines consumers’ valuation of calories in carbonated soft drinks and its weight implications in a broader context beyond sodas. Using a sample of 40,000 consumers, 35 percent were found to have a positive valuation for calories or were “calorie lovers”. The estimates were...

The goal of this study was to ascertain and document the significance of the maritime industry to Connecticut’s economy. The specific objective was to estimate the total economic impact of maritime industry sectors through the use of an economic model of the Connecticut economy. This study...

This report is a follow up on previous reports for 2011 quarters two, three, and four that use the current USDA methodology and continues the Vermont and Maine milk COP estimates previously calculated by the USDA’s ERS.The methodology used to estimate the milk COP for application of Public Act...

2013 Connecticut Milk Cost of Production Estimates, Statistical Uniform Price, and Application of Public Act 09-229

The objective of this report is to provide a benchmark of the percentage of Connecticut residents’ expenditures on locally-grown agricultural products. To this end, two specific assessments are conducted: • Consumer expenditures accounted for by locally-grown food (fruit, vegetables, dairy,...