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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"NET RETURN"”.
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Modeling Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Net Return Implications for Cow-Calf Producers in the Ozark Highlands
… agents, and researchers to evaluate GHG and net return (NR) repercussions when modifying site characteristics, production methods, and inputs. Objective 2: Develop a user guide such that the methodology for estimating cow-calf GHG emissions and NR can be adapted to other regions and livestock …
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Improving Nitrogen Management in Corn- Wheat-Soybean Rotations Using Site Specific Management in Eastern Virginia
… and underapplication and increase farmers' net returns. In Virginia, due to the high variability of within-field yield-limiting factors such as soil physical properties and fertility, the adoption of SSM is hindered by high gridsampling cost. Many Virginia corn-wheat-soybean farms have …
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The Effect of Calf Morbidity on Feedlot Performance and Profitability
… of feeder calves were included in this study. Ninety-five Certified: Preconditioned for Health (CPH), ninety KCA Gold Tag and eighty-eight "Sale Barn" cattle were fed at Horton's Research Feedyard in Fort Lupton, Colorado. No background information regarding the health status of the Sale Barn …
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Cultivation practices, maize and soybean productivity and soil properties on fragile slopes in Yunnan Province, China
… yield. The soybean harvest also contributed to net income, the crop had a similar function to straw mulch and increased N availability. Contour cultivation increased yields over the range 7.2-11.2% over three seasons compared with downslope cultivation, equivalent to ~500-1000 kg per hectare …
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Topsoil thickness impact on corn, soybean, and switchgrass productivity and soil nutrient management
… or soybean across 2009 to 2015. The greatest net return was experienced by corn and soybean at deeper ix DTC. Switchgrass was able to compete only with the net return of corn on very shallow DTC (<5 cm). Soil test P and STK were inversely correlated to one another, where STP increased and STK …
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Assessing Farm-Level and Aggregate Economic Impacts of Olive Integrated Pest Management Programs in Albania: an Ex-Ante Analysis
… impact assessment of olive IPM include (i) net return analysis for measuring farm level impacts; (ii) economic surplus modeling for measuring market-level impacts; and (iii) modeling of IPM adoption under output uncertainty. The economic surplus equilibrium displacement model developed for …
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A hierarchical decision-making approach to resource management and valuation: The case of conjunctive water use
… specifications are considered: (i) maximizing net return to water and land (profit) and (ii) aggregate value added (which includes gross returns to labor). Farmers are assumed to maximize temporal profit in both cases. The inadequacy of the single level conventional (shadow pricing) approach is …
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Systems' optimization through simulation
… optimization process, such as to maximize the net return from its application. The procedure offers the possibility of utilizing various sequential search techniques, requires no modifications of the simulation model, and can be applied to a reasonably broad class of optimization problems. …
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A microcomputer-based budget allocation and planning algorithm for interdependent projects
… a functional relationship between costs and returns. Budget planning techniques were incorporated into the algorithm to aid the decision maker in planning for future budgetary needs and in influencing the budget determination process. The algorithm utilizes a future worth of net return …
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Cropping systems under water-limited conditions: effects of rotation and nitrogen management on yield, resource use efficiency, profitability, and soil properties
… equivalent yield (GE), WUE, NUE, and partial net return as integrative performance metrics. Continuous corn achieved the highest system-level productivity and partial net return but exhibited lower NUE due to higher nitrogen inputs. In contrast, C-Sb achieved the highest NUE but at the expense …
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Moving Virginia Dairy Farms Toward Phosphorus Balance
… for crop production, the change in potential net return ranged from $-0.90 to $1.26/cwt of milk, with accompanying changes in P balance ranging from -9.0 to -14.7 lbs/ac. The analysis also showed that changes in potential net returns after converting to a grazing-based system ranged from …
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The effect of available resources on the forage-grain feeding ratios and forage production systems on selected Virginia grade A dairy farms
… the cost of producing milk and, ultimately, the net return to the farmer. This study had four objectives: (1) to determine the available resources and their restrictions on the farms included in this study; (2) to determine an optimum forage and grain production system and forage to grain feeding …
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Effect of Cropping Systems on Production and Economic Returns of Ten Vegetable Crops
… these crops; and (2) the differences in cost and net return between several cropping systems. Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. cv. Jet Star), cabbage (Brassica oleracea Capitata group, L. cv. Sun-up), collards (Brassica oleracea Acephala group, L. cv. Vates), and muskmelon (Cucumis melo L. …
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Risk Analysis of Adopting Conservation Practices on a Representative Peanut-Cotton Farm in Virginia
… objective of the farmer is to maximize expected net return, while meeting a target income with certain allowable expected shortfall from the income target. The farmer is also constrained by land, labor, peanut quota, and levels of pesticide, nitrogen, phosphorus, and soil losses. Major findings …
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Time-series and cross-sectional momentum investment strategies: International evidence
… anomaly”. The existence of the momentum abnormal returns continues to challenge the market efficiency theory. The majority of momentum studies have investigated cross-sectional momentum strategies in which stocks are selected on the basis of their relative performances over some prior period. In a …
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Development of a microcomputer-based capital budgeting algorithm for the dynamic decision environment
… system parameters, project costs, and project returns. The manager must consider project firm's capital among interdependencies the available in allocating the projects. After completing the allocation process in one period, the chosen projects are funded until the end of the next period. These …
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Three essays in applied microeconomics
… best incentive to the lawyer and maximize her return from litigation. By providing different contingent shares based on settlement and judgment, she is able to provide better incentive without diluting her return from litigation. At the same time, when she has relatively poor bargaining …
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Compensation in agribusiness: the case of the retail fertilizer industry
… theory is represented in the models by net return, managerialist theory by annual sales volume and form of ownership, and human capital theory by both education after high school and agribusiness work experience. Also controlled for in the models are the potential effect of salary on …
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The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on the Economy of the Irish Republic.
… price equivalents and a calculation of the net return on the input of Government funds. The major benefits of FDI are the creation of new employment (over 40,000 jobs up to 1972) and the increase in industrial exports (46% of manufactured exports were from foreign owned firms in 1970). Other …
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