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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Farm investment"”.
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Farm investment analysis--hand-calculated comparative budgeting and computerized five-year transitional budgeting
Tremendous capital investments required in today’s modern farming necessitate prudent planning of future investments. The object of this research was to provide a systematic means of analyzing profitability and cash flow consequences, resulting from anticipated changes in farm investments. Two …
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Intertemporal portfolio choice: An application to agricultural investment
This research analyzes optimal off-farm investment decisions for a Central Illinois hog farm in the presence of bankruptcy costs. Optimal decisions are derived using a stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) model which incorporates the stochastic dynamic nature of investment returns and the …
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Risk management in crop farming
… to weather-related risks, there is a need for investments in technological innovation and agricultural intensification related to increased efficiency of input usage (Vermeulen et al., 2012). The dissertation aimed to explore the influencing factors of crop insurance take-up and evaluate the …
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U.S. farm capital investment 1996--2013: Differences by farm size and operator primary occupation
<p>This study analyzes U.S. farm level investment in machinery, equipment and structures between 1996-2013. A synthetic panel is constructed using annual cross-sectional farm level observations from the Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS). Cohorts are formed by grouping farms into …
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Peace, farm and food: The effect of peace on investment and food consumption decisions
… of a non-state armed group affect household's investment decisions and their welfare in the short run. Starting in 2012, the government of Colombia engaged in a peace process that ended with the demobilization of the country's biggest non-state armed group, FARC. This process had multiple cease …
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Rural Non-farm Livelihood Diversification and Poverty Reduction in Nigeria
… research is to provide analysis of the rural non-farm sector in Nigeria by investigating inter-linkages between farm and non-farm activities. By critical analysis using quantitative and qualitative research methods to investigate farm and non-farm sectors, the research attempts to reveal the …