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impact of government payments on farmland values through its impact on farm profitability. Design …/methodology/approach - Businesses use the DuPont model to analyze the profitability of a business. This model includes three components: net profit … government payments on the asset turnover ratio. Findings - The analysis focuses on agricultural profitability in the ten …
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Rapidly declining gasoline prices from their record high during the summer of 2008, while ethanol prices remained relatively high, made it difficult for many bio-fuel policy modelers to fully explain the impacts of U.S. bio-fuel policies on fuel prices. Using profit-maximization models for...
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The Harvest Cost-Revenue Estimator, a financial model, was used to examine the cost sensitivity of forest biomass harvesting scenarios to targeted policies designed to stimulate wildfire hazardous fuel reduction projects. The policies selected represent actual policies enacted by federal and...
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While no-till (NT) cropping systems can provide conservation benefits in the northern Corn Belt, adoption has been low due to concerns about potential yield reductions and economic risk. Strip-tillage (ST) systems have been proposed as an alternative that may provide many of the conservation...
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Agricultural production responds to social, political, economic, environmental, and technological drivers that influence producers' decisions and shape the individual systems through modification of management practices, crop and livestock mix, and marketing strategy. We use an interview and...
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Recent soil and crop management technologies have potential for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions; however, these management strategies must be profitable if they are to be adopted by producers. The economic feasibility of reducing net greenhouse gas emissions in irrigated cropping systems was...
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study examines spatial relationships in agriculture's profitability over time. Results show temporal and spatial convergence …
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The paper describes three analyses to examine differences in construction company POT profitability between (1 …) different financial years, and (2) different sizes of companies. In the first analysis, the aggregated profitability of a sample …. The size (turnover) of companies however was significantly positive correlated with profitability. The second analysis …
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This paper makes two types of contributions to research on new venture teams. First, we examine previously neglected aspects of team composition, such as homogeneity and heterogeneity in terms of resource provision and prior start-up experience. Second, we attempt to reconcile conflicting...
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firms which grow without first securing high levels of profitability tend to be less successful compared to firms that first … secure high profitability at low growth. Empirical tests using two large, longitudinal data sets confirm that the profitable … low growth firms are both more likely to reach the desirable state of high growth and high profitability and have a …
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