Download or read book Long term Agricultural Baseline Projections written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Long term Agricultural Baseline Projections written by Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the years 1995 through 2000.
Download or read book Long term Agricultural Baseline Projections 1995 2005 written by Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Long Term Agricultural Baseline Projections written by United States Department Of Agriculture and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Long-Term Agricultural Baseline Projections: Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee Changes in any of the assumptions could significantly alter the projections, and actual conditions emerge will alter the outcomes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Long term Agricultural Baseline Projections 1995 2005 written by Etats-Unis. Department of Agriculture. World Agricultural Outlook Board and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural Baseline Projections to 2009 written by Barry Leonard and published by . This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides long-run baseline projections for the agricultural sector through 2009. Projections cover agricultural commodities, agricultural trade, & aggregate indicators of the sector, such as farm income & food prices. The projections are based on assumptions regarding macroeconomic conditions, policy, weather, & international developments. The baseline assumes that there are no shocks due to abnormal weather or other factors affecting global supply & demand. The projections assume that current agricultural law of the 1996 Farm Act remains in effect throughout the baseline. These projections are one representative scenario for the agricultural sector for the next decade.
Download or read book Long term World Agricultural Commodity Baseline Projections written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Long term Agricultural Baseline Projections 1995 2005 written by Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perspectives on Agriculture Food and Natural Resources written by Stanley R. Johnson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains baseline projections produced for the U.S. agricultural sector & international commodity markets. These projections serve as a baseline for evaluating & comparing alternative macroeconomic, policy, weather, & technological scenarios. They are intended for use by farmers, government agencies & officials, agribusinesses, & others who do medium-range & long term planning. These baseline projections are grounded on a series of assumptions about the general economy, agricultural policies, the weather, & technological change. Extensive charts & tables.
Download or read book International Agricultural Baseline Projections to 2007 written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethanol Expansion in the United States written by Paul C. Westcott and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A large expansion in ethanol production is underway in the United States. Cellulosic sources of feedstocks for ethanol production hold some promise for the future, but the primary feedstock in the United States currently is corn. Market adjustments to this increased demand extend well beyond the corn sector to supply and demand for othercrops, such as soybeans and cotton, as well as to the livestock industries. USDA¿s long-term projections, augmented by farmers¿ planting intentions for 2007, are used to illustrate anticipated changes in the agricultural sector. Graphs.
Download or read book USDA Commodity Forecasts written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural Outlook Forum Proceedings written by United States Department Of Agriculture and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Agricultural Outlook Forum Proceedings: Presented by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, February 22 and 23, 1995, Arlington, Virginia The Forum was the seventy-first outlook meeting sponsored by usda. While maintaining the traditional focus on the near-term outlook for agriculture and farm commodities, the Forum inaugurated several important changes. A new emphasis was placed on the long-term horizon for the farm sector, which is well reflected in the speeches in this volume. To encourage substantive discussion of agriculture's future, usda provided Forum participants with a report entitled Long-term Agricultural Baseline Projections, 1995 Staff Report waqb-95-1. A copy of the report is included as an attachment to these proceedings. The Forum was designed to encourage a lively discussion about the future, which is evident from the diversity of speakers and the opinions expressed. Speakers at the plenary sessions on the opening afternoon addressed future farm policy directions. Participants at a series of forum sessions on the second day of the meeting discussed the major economic and sectoral issues for the future. Audio tapes of all sessions, and video tapes of the plenary sessions provide a complete record of both presentations and questions and answers. Readers interested in obtaining tapes are referred to the order form at the back of this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book International Agricultural Baseline Projections to 2005 written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sustainable Intensification written by Jules N. Pretty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continued population growth, rapidly changing consumption patterns and the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are driving limited resources of food, energy, water and materials towards critical thresholds worldwide. These pressures are likely to be substantial across Africa, where countries will have to find innovative ways to boost crop and livestock production to avoid becoming more reliant on imports and food aid. Sustainable agricultural intensification - producing more output from the same area of land while reducing the negative environmental impacts - represents a solution for millions of African farmers. This volume presents the lessons learned from 40 sustainable agricultural intensification programmes in 20 countries across Africa, commissioned as part of the UK Government's Foresight project. Through detailed case studies, the authors of each chapter examine how to develop productive and sustainable agricultural systems and how to scale up these systems to reach many more millions of people in the future. Themes covered include crop improvements, agroforestry and soil conservation, conservation agriculture, integrated pest management, horticulture, livestock and fodder crops, aquaculture, and novel policies and partnerships.
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Download or read book Evaluating USDA Agricultural Forecasts written by Siddhartha S. Bora and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The timely availability of accurate forecasts plays a vital role in informing decisions by farm sector stakeholders. In this dissertation, I evaluate the rationality, accuracy, and informativeness of a range of agricultural forecasts and projections published by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and other agencies and examine ways to improve them. The findings have implications for future revisions of the forecasting processes and for policymakers, agricultural businesses, and other stakeholders who use these forecasts. In Chapter 1, I show that some of the reported biases and inefficiencies in USDA forecasts may be due to an asymmetric loss of the forecaster. Many previous studies suggest that many USDA forecasts are biased and/or inefficient. These findings, however, may be the result of the assumed loss function of USDA forecasters. I test the rationality of the USDA net cash income forecasts and the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) production and price forecasts between 1988-2018 using a flexible multivariate loss function that allows for asymmetric loss and non-separable forecast errors. My results provide robust evidence that USDA forecasters are rational expected loss minimizers yet demonstrate a tendency to place a greater weight on under- or over-prediction. As a result, this study provides an alternate interpretation of previous findings of forecast irrationality. Agricultural baselines play an important role in shaping agricultural policy by providing information about the farm sector for a ten-year horizon, yet these projections have not been rigorously evaluated. In Chapter 2, I evaluate the accuracy and informativeness of two widely used baselines for the US farm sector published by the USDA and the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) in three steps. First, I examine the average percent errors of the projections and perform tests of bias. Second, I use a novel testing framework based on the encompassing principle to test the predictive content of the projections for each horizon, determining the longest informative projection horizon. Third, I compare the USDA and FAPRI baseline projections using a multi-horizon framework that considers all projection horizons jointly. I find that prediction error and bias increase with the horizon’s length. The predictive content of the baselines projections for most variables diminishes after 4-5 years. The multi-horizon comparison suggests that neither USDA nor FAPRI projections have uniform or average superior predictive ability over the other for most variables. Multi-step forecasts about commodity market indicators play an important role in informing policy and investment decisions by governments and market participants. In Chapter 3, I examine whether the accuracy of long-term forecasts can be improved using deep learning models. I first formulate a supervised learning problem and set benchmarks for forecast accuracy. I train a set of deep neural networks on a training sample and measure their performance against the benchmark model on a test sample using a walk-forward validation strategy. I find that while the USDA baseline projections perform better for the shorter horizon, the performance of the deep neural networks improves for the longer forecast horizons.
