Download or read book The Economics of American Agriculture written by Steven C. Blank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book answers the questions: What is happening to American agriculture, and why? Steven C. Blank uses portfolio theory to analyze both macro- and microeconomic data that paints a clear picture of the trends in agriculture, and explains why these trends are consistent with market evolution and global economic development. He clarifies agriculture's specific role in economic development with a focus on the current and future globalizing commodity markets.The book features empirical research that demonstrates the link between farm-level investment decisions and regional and national economic trends. It shows how the dynamic environment of industrialization and globalization of agriculture is part of a continuing development that is driven by technological innovation. This all points to a future with a very different agricultural production sector and some extremely important policy choices that will face the entire country.

Download or read book Economics of American Agriculture written by Walter W. Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Topical Studies and References on the Economic History of American Agriculture written by Louis Bernard Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Economics of American Agriculture written by Walter William Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Readings in the Economic History of American Agriculture written by Louis Bernard Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Economics of American Agriculture written by Walter William Wilcox and published by Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall. This book was released on 1974 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The production of farm products; Marketing farm products; Toward an understanding of farm prices; Farmers in the national and world economies; Human; material and financial resources of agriculture; Price-income policy problems.

Download or read book American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century written by Bruce L. Gardner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American agriculture in the twentieth century has given the world one of its great success stories, a paradigm of productivity and plenty. Yet the story has its dark side, from the plight of the Okies in the 1930s to the farm crisis of the 1980s to today's concerns about low crop prices and the impact of biotechnology. Looking at U.S. farming over the past century, Bruce Gardner searches out explanations for both the remarkable progress and the persistent social problems that have marked the history of American agriculture. Gardner documents both the economic difficulties that have confronted farmers and the technological and economic transformations that have lifted them from relative poverty to economic parity with the nonfarm population. He provides a detailed analysis of the causes of these trends, with emphasis on the role of government action. He reviews how commodity support programs, driven by interest-group politics, have spent hundreds of billions of dollars to little purpose. Nonetheless, Gardner concludes that by reconciling competing economic interests while fostering productivity growth and economic integration of the farm and nonfarm economies, the overall twentieth-century role of government in American agriculture is fairly viewed as a triumph of democracy.

Download or read book Economics of Research and Innovation in Agriculture written by Petra Moser and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The challenges facing agriculture are plenty. Along with the world's growing population and diminishing amounts of water and arable land, the gradual increase in severe weather presents new challenges and imperatives for producing new, more resilient crops to feed a more crowded planet in the twenty-first century. Innovation has historically helped agriculture keep pace with earth's social, population, and ecological changes. In the last 50 years, mechanical, biological, and chemical innovations have more than doubled agricultural output while barely changing input quantities. The ample investment behind these innovations was available because of a high rate of return: a 2007 paper found that the median ROI in agriculture was 45 percent between 1965 and 2005. This landscape has changed. Today many of the world's wealthier countries have scaled back their share of GDP devoted to agricultural R&D amid evidence of diminishing returns. Universities, which have historically been a major source of agricultural innovation, increasingly depend on funding from industry rather than government to fund their research. As Upton Sinclair wrote of the effects industry influences, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." In this volume of the NBER Conference Report series, editor Petra Moser offers an empirical, applied-economic framework to the different elements of agricultural R&D, particularly as they relate to the shift from public to private funding. Individual chapters examine the sources of agricultural knowledge and investigate challenges for measuring the returns to the adoption of new agricultural technologies, examine knowledge spillovers from universities to agricultural innovation, and explore interactions between university engagement and scientific productivity. Additional analysis of agricultural venture capital point to it as an emerging and future source of resource in this essential domain"--

Download or read book Structure Issues of American Agriculture written by United States. Department of Agriculture. Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Agriculture and Agricultural Economics 1955 1975 written by Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Agricultural Economics and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Readings in the Economic History of American Agriculture written by Louis Bernard Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Perspectives on the Future of American Agriculture written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Agriculture written by Ronald Lester Mighell and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture today and yesterday; Agriculture in the total economic process; Dimensions of the agricultural plant; Structure of commercial farms-scale; Structure of commercial farms-type; Farm tenure and debtChanges and structural strain; Group interests in agriculture.

Download or read book Agricultural Economics written by John W. Goodwin and published by Reston. This book was released on 1977 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural economics defined; Our national economy - some basic choices; Our national economy - wealth, productivity, and income; Money and agricultural finance; The problems of agriculture and macroeconomic policy decisions; The economic setting of american agriculture; The economic history of american agriculture; The nature and scope of agricultural economics; Production of agricultural goods and the concept of supply; Consumption of agricultural products and the concept of demand; Supply, demand, and the role of market price; The concept of elasticity; Market structure: the conditions of competition; Price spreads, market levels, and marketing margins; Agricultural cooperation; Production management; Joint supply functions and derived demand; Budgeting: a management tool; The economics of land use and value.

Download or read book The Changing Structure of American Agriculture written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Policy in the United States written by James L. Novak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural Policy in the US: Evolution and Economics traces the foundation of US agricultural policy from its colonial roots to the present, using economic concepts to analyze and interpret political and economic consequences. Ancient Roman food and agricultural reform, English Corn Law and other historic examples of agricultural policies are included to show that agricultural policy has a long history and has been found necessary for governance throughout history. Processes employed to develop US agricultural policies, the structure and function of government that develops and implements agricultural policy, and the specific evolution of policy from the early twentieth century to the Agricultural Act of 2014 are included. Specific policies in past farm bills are detailed in order to track their evolution and economic effects. This textbook includes arguments for and against common tools of US agricultural policy. This debate continues today and can be seen in a gradual change over time from taxes and tariffs to risk management. Information presented does not attempt to influence the readership towards a pro or con position but rather to present information to help the readers to understand the issues related to agricultural policy in the US.

Download or read book Journal of Farm Economics written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes papers and reports of the American Farm Economic Association.