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Dairy Directions: a decade of whole farm analysis of dairy systems

Malcolm, Bill; Ho, Christie K.M.; Armstrong, Dan P.; … - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 20 (2012)

are at least $200 million. Volume 20, Paper 2 (pp.39-58) Dairy Directions: A decade of whole farm analysis of dairy … systems B. Malcolm, C.K.M. Ho, D.P. Armstrong, P.T. Doyle, K.A. Tarrant, J.W. Heard, C.M. Leddin, W.J. Wales Dairy farm … systems are complex and diverse. A decade ago, a dairy research and development project, Dairy Directions, was developed. In …

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Impacts of changing water price and availability on irrigated dairy farms in northern Victoria

Ho, Christie K.M.; Armstrong, Dan P.; Doyle, Peter T.; … - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2004

sustainability of farm and catchment systems. In northern Victoria, the dairy industry is a major user of water, and contributes to … viability of dairy farming in this region, but the diversity of dairy farm systems suggests that the impact will vary between …

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Australian consumers' willingness to pay and willingness to purchase a hypothetical lower cholesterol pork product

Bellhouse, Amy; Malcolm, Bill; Griffith, Garry R.; … - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 18 (2010)

This study investigated whether there would be an increase in consumer willingness to pay and purchase if reduced cholesterol pork was introduced to the Australian market. A stated choice analysis was used, with the following questions addressed. How are current purchases of fresh pork affected...

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The benefits to the Australian Pig meat industry from an increase in demand for a hypothetical low cholesterol pork product

Slattery, Henry; Griffith, Garry R.; Malcolm, Bill; … - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 18 (2010)

This is the third of a series of papers examining the potential economic effects from the introduction of a hypothetical low cholesterol pork product into the Australian market. Here, a newly updated pig meat model reported by Griffith et al. (2010) is used to model the industry wide impacts of...

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Old model, new problem: when should you update a model and what happens when you do?

Griffith, Garry R.; Malcolm, Bill; Mounter, Stuart W.; … - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 18 (2010)

This paper is a summary of some of the considerations involved in applying an existing model to a new problem, in particular in deciding whether to update or not, and some of the issues involved in interpreting the output from the new application. Thus where you start from does influence where...

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Farmer decisions about selling wheat and managing wheat price risk in Australia

Williams, John; Malcolm, Bill - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 20 (2012)

Making farm decisions is difficult, especially making decisions about selling and pricing wheat in deregulated supply chains. This study, conducted prior to export deregulation, sought to identify which factors were important to northern New South Wales (NSW) wheat growers when they were making...

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The Role of Agribusiness Assets in Investment Portfolios

Johnson, Michael; Malcolm, Bill; O'Connor, Ian - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 14 (2006)

Investment in agribusiness assets has grown significantly in recent years. The question of interest is whether … including agribusiness assets in investment portfolios provide benefits. The effects of diversification by including … agribusiness assets in two investment portfolios, a mixed asset portfolio and a diversified share portfolio was investigated using …

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Financing Matters

Malcolm, Bill - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2011

Farms systems are open to financial systems. Financing matters. Analysis of questions about management of farms is a multi-dimensional task; focusing on economic efficiency only partly does the job. A financial system channeling funds efficiently from the non-farm sector to the farm sector,...

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Economic analysis of improved perennial pasture systems

Lewis, Claire; Malcolm, Bill; Farquharson, Robert J.; … - In: AFBM Journal 09 (2012) 2

New perennial pasture grazing systems have been developed for livestock production in the high rainfall zone of southern Australia. These systems provide producers in south west Victoria with the opportunity to increase stocking rate per hectare compared to current practice. A partial discounted...

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Effect of a carbon price on farm profitability on rain-fed dairy farms in south-west Victoria: a first look

Ozkan, Seyda; Farquharson, Robert J.; Hill, Julian; … - In: AFBM Journal 09 (2012) 1

In this study, the possible impact of different prices of carbon on farm profitability in two dairy farm businesses … magnitude of a carbon charge on dairy systems if they were to continue to operate essentially under the same system following …

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