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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"farm land"”.
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An investigation of farm land credit
… last few years it has attracted the attention of farmers, financiers, legislators, and city dwellers. Several commissions have gone abroad to secure information on foreign methods of loaning to farmers, the national government has been trying to devise an American system of rural credit, and state …
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Determination of Severance Damages Resulting From Partial Taking of Farm Land
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The impact of financial constraints on the local price of farm land
<p>Most farm land acquisitions involve a significant commitment of money capital. The proportion of owned versus borrowed wealth used to meet the purchase commitment is reflected in the down-payment ratio. The larger the down-payment ratio, the greater the proportion of owned wealth employed in the …
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Agricultural Prices and Costs Suitable for Use in Appraising Farm Land for Long-Term Commitments
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Capitalization of benefits of the flue-cured tobacco price support program into farm land values
… benefits of the price-support program into land values. Higher net income for farmers, the primary objective of the program, is therefore defeated through higher land cost and increased rents. The objective of this study was to derive empirical estimates of the capitalized value of an acre …
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Real Options Models in Real Estate
… Secondly, we consider the valuation of farm land from the perspective of land developers, who may think of farm land as being similar to call options on subdivision lots. Third, we consider the valuation of opportunities to install solar panels on properties, in which properties may be …
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Photovoice as a technique to understand the perceptions of local people neighboring Tarangire National Park in Tanzania on the risks caused by migratory animals
… on the peoples' perceptions of risk; however land use patterns (farm land and associated activities) showed some influence on perceptions of risk. Changes in land use for two of the villages, Emboreet and Narakauwo, indicated a large increase in farming activities, which are likely to …
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The Ahipara gumfields
… an important part in the development of Northland for more than one hundred years. Kauri gum was valued for its use in the manufacture of varnish, paint and linoleum, and it is sought after today primarily for its ornamental qualities. For the most part the old Gumfields where the diggers …
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The persistence of business performance in sample soybean farms from Mato Grosso and Illinois
Direct farm land investment and ownership by non-traditional institutional, private equity, and sovereign wealth funds has increased in recent years as investors find attractive characteristics in this asset class such as favorable risk adjusted returns, an inflation hedge, and a negative …
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The Drowned Girl
… called Ridgewood-a subdivision built on dairy farm land in the mid-sixties-is key to the thematic link that ties the stories together. I am interested in revealing the corruption of the natural landscape, the carving up of rural areas after World War II to create suburban communities in which …
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An Analysis of Wind Power Plant Site Prospecting in the Central United States
… of the county center, median home values, and farm land area in the county are the four strongest nonconventional predictors (Hosmer and Lemeshow Chi-Square = 9.1250, N = 1009, df = 8, p = 0.3319, - 2LogLikelihood = 619.521). Evaluation of the final model using multiple statistics, including …
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Pre- and post-retirement asset allocation: a simulation of retirement investment strategies for agricultural producers
… percent debt/asset ratio with a majority of the farm land being leased. The analytical model simulates the annual cash flows of a commercial agricultural operation for each investment scenario over a 30-year period. Stochastic rates of return, generated using a vector-autoregressive (VAR) model, …
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Seasonal soil carbon fluxes in transitioning agricultural soils in Central Washington State: Relations to land-use, environmental factors and soil carbon-nitrogen characteristics
Changing agricultural land-use practices to increase soil carbon sequestration contributes to climate change mitigation and improved food security by moving CO<sub>2</sub> from the atmosphere into soil as soil organic carbon (SOC). In 2016, a farm in Thorp, Washington, Spoon Full Farm, began …
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An evaluation of soil and water management practices on a lowland soil with poor natural drainage
… range of crops that can be grown and influences farm management decisions regarding the nature and timing of field operations. When economic considerations lead farmers to commence field operations when the soil is too wet, the result can be structural degradation of the soil, leading to the …
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Bee-cause - Designing to receive: a project which explores designing landform and soils to receive and support a variety of flowering species in strategically located corridors; bridging the boundary between the cape honey bee foraging grounds and bee pollinated farmlands, as a result creating other socioeconomic, educational and environmental relationships
"Land Mosaic" is a term often referred to by Richard Forman as the fundamentally different ecotopes which play out within a landscape forming a spatial juxtaposition of landscape patchworks. Each ecotope is defined by a variety of factors such as landform, soils, hydrology and weather. In a natural …
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A morphological study of some of the immature stages of Cryptohypnus nocturnus eschscholtz, and a study of some ecological factors concerning wireworms : a preliminary study
… of production, and depreciate the value of the land. Thomas (1930) states that the depreciation in value of Carolina farm land, as a ruslt of wireworm depredations, has been estimated conservatively at over a Million Dollars. In Saskatchewan, wireworms reduced the yield of field crops by 1.71% …
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Examining the spatial influences of natural capital in the Australian agricultural landscape
… and economic influences and outcomes of on-farm natural capital in the Australian agricultural landscape over space and time. In particular, it explored: 1) the spatial influences on the adoption of certified organic farming (which is used as a proxy indicator of natural capital conservation …
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MULTIFUNCTIONAL EVALUATION AND VALIDATION OF PRACTICES, TOOLS AND INNOVATIVE MODELS FOR THE LANDSCAPE AND AGROECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS: TRADE-OFFS AND SYNERGIES IN THE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES FRAMEWORK
… low-intensity and diversified agricultural land use can contribute to reversing these negative trends. Within this context, the agroecological approach specifically seeks the reintegration, within the agricultural systems, of their undermined ecosystem functions. Among the agroecological …