The milk quotas were introduced in Italy in 1984; from that time onward, the dairy chain has progressed in technology and organization with consequences for the market competition. The Aglink-Cosimo simulations suggest milk production will return to an increasing path, driven by a fairly optimistic...

This 2011 report provides an economic overview of the Canadian agriculture and agri-food system. It is meant to be a multi-purpose reference document to provide: an introduction to the agriculture and agri-food system; a snapshot of structural changes that are occurring throughout the system in...

Corn and wheat cash prices in Kansas are affected by a number of local supply-demand, market structure, transportation access and other factors. Kansas corn prices in 2008 were affected by form of business organization, local feedgrain production and livestock feed usage, elevator storage...

A generally accepted theory of firm behavior is incorporated into an abstract computerized simulation model capable of handling many different environments and organizations. This model provides a means of studying management problems using the simulation approach by providing, in most...

The AGMEMOD Partnership seeks to capture the inherent existingheterogeneity of agricultural systems by linking together individualEU Member State models, an aggregated EU model and severalaccession countries into one single model, while still maintaininganalytical consistency. Although this...

El presente trabajo, de carácter metodológico, introduce el uso de los modelos en el análisis de políticas agrarias. Comenzando por una descripción genérica del proceso de análisis de políticas públicas, se continúa con la definición y clasificación de los modelos para el análisis....

The European Union (EU) introduced a special transitional semi-subsistence measure to promote the smallest agricultural producers, so-called semi-subsistence farm households (SFHs) in the enlargement process. An outlook on the future of SFHs requires comprehensive and reliable information on the...

Development is traced of the concepts of consumer's and producer's surplus, and the uses and limitations of these concepts for public policy analysis are examined. The applications to price stabilization and policy programs are surveyed. The use of decision theory as an alternative to...

This article presents the structure, parameters, and validation statistics for the dairy-sector sub-model contained in the U S Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Food and Agricultural Policy Simulator (FAPSIM) This submodel endogenously estimates dairy cow numbers, milk production farm-level...

In recent decades the Hungarian intelligentsia, both political and governmental, emphasised the importance of higher education in socio-economic modernisation. At the same time, after nearly twenty years of system-transition we have to see that the ambitious goals of reforms in many cases have...