Conventional soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] production in the midsouthern USA has involved planting Maturity Group (MG) V and later cultivars in May and later months in a seedbed that has been shallow-tilled in the fall or spring just before planting. Moisture deficits that frequently occur...

US agriculture operates in a market driven economy, although government policies can have influence on what farmers produce and how they produce it. As with other businesses, agricultural producers respond to economic incentives and disincentives, and make decisions to maximize their welfare;...

The Environmental Protection Agency requires concentrated animal feeding operations to develop and implement a comprehensive nutrient management plan. Changes in manure management to meet nutrient application standards will increase production costs. Some of these costs can be offset by savings...

One critical factor in open pit mining projects is the estimation of the recoverable reserves. The reason for this is that at the valuation stage there is a lack of information about future metal prices and production costs. Consequently, the estimation of the recoverable reserves needs to be...

Magistrantūros studijų baigiamasis darbas, 60 puslapių, 12 paveikslų, 5 lentelės, 51 literatūros šaltinis, 5 priedai, lietuvių kalba.Tyrimo objektas – duonos ir kitus miltinius gaminius gaminančios įmonės.Tyrimo dalykas – gamybos išlaidų klasifikavimas.Darbo tikslas – parengti...

The subject of the research is production costs classification used in the Lithuanian manufacture enterprises and farmers’ farms.The goal of the work is to reason the expedience of selection of the classification features in practice and to measure the adaptation opportunities of the selected...

O objetivo principal deste trabalho foi estimar custos e lucro líquido nas etapas de campo (incluindo a elaboração de cera de origem) do extrativismo da carnaúba. A coleta dos dados ocorreu ao longo dos anos de 2005 e 2006, por meio de entrevistas abertas e observação de campo, ocasião em...

A central problem in estimating per unit costs of production originates from the fact that most farms producemultiple outputs and standard farm-accounting data are only available at the whole-farm level. The seeminglyunrelated regression (SUR) approach is used to estimate per unit production...

Esse artigo avalia a viabilidade econômica da terminação de bovinos em confinamento para o ano de 2008. Dezessete cenários são simulados considerando-se diferentes ganhos de peso vivo diário para 220 animais, machos castrados, ½ Zebu  ½ Holandês, com peso inicial médio de 354 kg,...

This paper analyses the economics of biofuel production and the implications that the accelerating growth in biofuel production in many countries could have on agricultural markets. It shows that production costs of ethanol and biodiesel differ significantly across countries and feedstock crops....