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Gender differences in agricultural productivity in Côte d'Ivoire: Distribution, drivers, and changes over time Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Aletheia Donald, Gabriel Lawin, Léa Rouanet
This paper analyzes changes in agricultural productivity gender gaps in Côte d'Ivoire between 2008 and 2016 using decomposition methods. The analysis finds that the gender gap went from 40% in food crops and 17% in exports crops in 2008, to 19% in food crops and a statistical zero in export crops in 2016. The overall gender gap decreased by 15 percentage points over this period, and is statistically
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Urbanization and adoption of sustainable agricultural practices in the rural‐urban interface of Bangalore, India Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Verena Preusse, Nils Nölke, Meike Wollni
Urban expansion often takes place on the most productive agricultural lands, affecting how the remaining agricultural land is used. Evidence on the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices in urbanizing areas is scarce and mostly based on cross‐sectional data. Cross‐sectional studies, however, cannot reflect the dynamics of urbanization and adoption. We use household panel data from 2017 and
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On household food stock and waste under risk Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Jian Li, Wuyang Hu, Ping Qing, Jean-Paul Chavas
This paper investigates household behavioral response to disruptions in the food supply chain, with a focus on the role for risk and its effects on household food stocks and food waste. We present an empirical analysis based on data from Chinese consumers over multiple periods in 2019 and during the COVID-19 crisis of 2020. We investigate how household behavior changed during the COVID-19 crisis, documenting
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How a price-support policy can hurt the environment: Empirical evidence from Northeast China Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Jian Chen, Xiaohui Tian, Jialing Yu
During the corn stockpiling system reform in Northeast China between 2008 and 2015, corn production expanded dramatically, and corn residue, which was mostly burned in-situ, caused severe air pollution issues. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we assessed the effects of the corn stockpiling system reform in China and its associated environmental outcomes with a provincial-level dataset. Our
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Bioenergy feedstock supply from wheat straw: A farm level model incorporating trade-offs in crop choices, disease risk, and soil fertility Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Curtis J. McKnight, Grant Hauer, Marty Luckert, Feng Qiu
Second-generation biofuel (e.g., ethanol, renewable diesel) can be made from crop residues. However, the availability of residues for biofuel production is uncertain, because farmers have the option to grow different crops and use the residues for alternative purposes, such as livestock bedding and feed, or leave them in the field to improve soil quality. Taking Canadian wheat straw supply as an example
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Online food advertisements and the role of emotions in adolescents’ food choices Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Martina Vecchi, Linlin Fan, Sarah Myruski, Wei Yang, Kathleen L. Keller, Rodolfo M. Nayga
Adolescence is a critical period for future health outcomes. Food habits and cognitive development are underway, and it is a period of heightened sensitivity to external influences and emotional shifts. We experimentally test the individual and combined influence of food advertisements and emotional primes (i.e., positive, negative, neutral) on adolescent food choices. Participants completed a food
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The impact of COVID-19 on price transmission and price volatility in the Canadian beef supply chain Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Yanan Zheng, Henry An, Meng Yang, Feng Qiu
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in disruptions to the Canadian meat and livestock markets. While prices initially decreased, the shutdowns of beef packing plants led to a large reduction in the supply of beef and a corresponding increase in the wholesale price with ramifications along the entire supply chain. This study examines the effect of COVID-19 on price transmission and price volatility in the
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Rent seeking and precautionary bidding in conservation auctions Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Bruno Wichmann
The paper presents a model to study reverse auctions for conservation contracts. A buyer elicits bids from multiple rent seeking and risk averse farmers. Conservation activities have ex post cost risk such that farmers only learn the true value of conservation contracts after the auction. The paper derives the optimal bidding function and shows that farmers have conflicting incentives when facing multiple
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Spatial optimization of nutrient reduction measures on agricultural land to improve water quality: A coupled modeling approach Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Roy Brouwer, Rute Pinto, Jorge Garcia-Hernandez, Xingtong Li, Merrin Macrae, Predrag Rajsic, Wanhong Yang, Yongbo Liu, Mark Anderson, Louise Heyming
The objective of this study is to identify the optimal spatial distribution of Best Management Practices (BMPs) to reduce total phosphorus (TP) runoff from agricultural land in the largest Canadian watershed draining into Lake Erie, the Great Lake most vulnerable to eutrophication. BMP measures include reduced fertilizer application, cover crops, buffer strips, and the restoration of wetlands. Environmental
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Canadian food inflation: International dynamics and local agency Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 José G. Nuño-Ledesma, Michael von Massow
We offer a descriptive analysis of the complexities surrounding food price inflation in Canada three years after the outbreak of COVID-19. The Consumer Price Index and its food component have registered significant shifts since 2020 and remain elevated. This behavior is influenced by international dynamics, such as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the consequent commodity price surges, and
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A random walk for agricultural total factor productivity Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 James Vercammen
Growth in agricultural total factor productivity (TFP), which explains most of the long-term growth in U.S. agricultural output, may be slowing. The Economic Research Service (ERS) of the USDA is confident that current levels of below-average growth will eventually regain the long-term trend line. Others disagree, arguing instead that due to declining public expenditures on agricultural research, TFP
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Carbon offsets and agriculture: Options, obstacles, and opinions Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-29 G. Cornelis van Kooten, Rebecca Zanello
While carbon offsets in agriculture can play a role in addressing climate change, they are not a perfect substitute for direct emission reductions. As shown in this paper through various arguments and case studies, climate policies in Canada have avoided the use of offsets to be sold in carbon markets, preferring instead to incentivize adoption of best management practices (BMPs) that provide environmental
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Impact of ‘‘high in” front-of-package nutrition labeling on food choices: Evidence from a grocery shopping experiment Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-29 Yu Na Lee, Laura Stortz, Mike von Massow, Christopher Kimmerer
This study investigates the ex-ante effects of the front-of-package (FoP) nutrition labeling for food products high in saturated fat, sugar, and/or sodium, which is a new regulation recently announced by Health Canada to combat obesity. The Canadian food industry has until January 1, 2026, to comply with the new regulations. To examine the ex-ante effects of this policy, an incentivized experiment
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Trade-agreement compensation in supply-managed industries Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Ryan Cardwell, Scott Biden
Recent Canadian preferential trade agreements (PTAs) include increased market access for imports of supply-managed products (dairy and poultry). Such agreements are typically expected to create trade flows and increase supply of relatively low-priced products in Canada. Industry groups representing Canadian producers and processors of supply-managed products negotiated to receive approximately C$5
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Willingness to pay for credence attributes associated with agri-food products—Evidence from Canada Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Ousmane Z. Traoré, Lota D. Tamini, Bernard Korai
Credence attributes such as environmental impact, origin, fairness/unfairness, and food safety/health are not available with certainty prior to or at the time of the consumer purchase decision. This creates a problem of imperfect or asymmetric information, leading to suboptimal supply and demand for products with these desirable attributes. Using a representative sample of 2001 Canadian consumers,
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Reducing land fragmentation to curb cropland abandonment: Evidence from rural China Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Linyi Zheng, Liufang Su, Songqing Jin
Reducing land fragmentation can theoretically curb cropland abandonment, thus ensuring food security. However, few studies have quantified this relationship using large-scale survey data at the household level. This study adopts a two-way fixed-effects (TWFE) model to examine the effect of land fragmentation on cropland abandonment using nationally representative panel data from the China Rural Household
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Corrigendum to “Minimum information management and price-abundance relationships in a fishery” Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-26
In Tables 3 and 4 and Appendix Table A1, A2, and A3 we have removed the co-headers row that indicates Annual and Monthly. This row is not meant to be there for these tables. We have now removed the row, and the updated table is as follows: https://doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12299 TABLE 3. MIDAS almon pdl: Bio-0 Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4 Full-sample MIDAS: PC (PDL1) −0.1142*** −0.1036*** −0.1232***
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Determining optimal forest rotation ages and carbon offset credits: Accounting for post-harvest carbon storehouses Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 G. Cornelis van Kooten
Sequestering carbon in forest ecosystems is important for mitigating climate change. A major policy concern is whether forests should be left unharvested to avoid carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and store carbon, or harvested to take advantage of potential carbon storage in post-harvest wood product sinks and removal of CO2 from the atmosphere by new growth. The issue is addressed in this paper by examining
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Fungicide resistance and misinformation: A game theoretic approach Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Chelsea A. Pardini, Ana Espínola-Arredondo
Fungicide resistance is a serious problem for agriculture today. This analysis provides additional insight into the strategic behavior of farmers when their fungicide use generates a negative intertemporal production externality in the form of fungicide resistance. We find that when farmers encounter this type of externality, they choose fungicide levels that exacerbate fungicide resistance. We examine
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Induced innovation and spillover effects of US and Canadian research expenditures in Canadian agriculture Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Qingsong Tian, Lukas Cechura, J. Stephen Clark, Yan Yu
This study examines the induced innovation hypothesis (IIH) from 1958 to 2015 for two Canadian agriculture regions: Central Canada (the provinces of Ontario and Quebec) and Western Canada (the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba). There is broadly consistent support for the IIH for Canadian agriculture, especially for Western Canadian agriculture. In addition, there is support for the notion
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Access to credit and heterogeneous effects on agricultural technology adoption: Evidence from large rural surveys in Ethiopia Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Mekdim D. Regassa, Mohammed B. Degnet, Mequanint B. Melesse
Modern agricultural technologies hold huge potential for increasing productivity and reducing poverty in developing countries. However, adoption levels of these technologies have remained disappointingly low in Africa. This paper analyzes the effect of access to credit on the likelihood of adoption and use intensity of chemical fertilizers using data from large rural surveys in Ethiopia. Using a h
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Adoption des Politiques de Protection de l'Environnement et performance des Entreprises Camerounaises Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-09 Tsambou André Dumas, Fomba Kamga Benjamin
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effect of the environmental protection policies of by Cameroonian firms on their performance. It uses the endogenous switching regression technique and propensity scores applied to micro-data from 639 firms in Cameroon. The results show that only 17% of firms adopt these measures, while on average 85% of firms produce solid, gaseous or liquid waste. The
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Price determinants of bred heifers: Do reputations matter? Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Allan F. Pinto, Brittney K. Goodrich, William Kelley, Max Runge
Replacement brood cows are among the most significant investments for cow-calf operations, thus crucial to profitability. Many cow-calf producers find it cost effective to purchase replacements from a reliable replacement heifer seller, though by doing so they increase risk of reproductive inefficiency due to unknown characteristics of the heifers. When important information about a product is missing
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Covid-19-tested food labels Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Longzhong Shi, Xuan Chen, Bo Chen
While the transmission of virus SARS-CoV-2 via food is rare, some Chinese food retailers are considering a Covid-19-tested food label. However, how consumers may support such a label is unknown. We quantify Chinese consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for food carrying a Covid-19-tested label using an online choice experiment. We find that the WTPs for such a label are always positive for all food products
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Reflections on technological progress in the agri-food industry: Past, present, and future Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Getu Hailu
Technological advances—for example, from hand milking to robotic milking—are at the heart of economic transformation and have significantly shaped the agri-food industry and economic growth throughout history. A look at the lead article of the first issue (and the first volume, 1952) of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics (CJAE) 70 years ago reveals an ongoing inquiry within the discipline
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Micro insights on the pathways to agricultural transformation: Comparative evidence from Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Mulubrhan Amare, Priyanka Parvathi, Trung Thanh Nguyen
Most studies of agricultural transformation document the impact of agricultural income growth on macroeconomic indicators of development. Much less is known about the micro-scale changes within the farming sector that signal a transformation precipitated by agricultural income growth. This study provides a comparative analysis of the patterns of micro-level changes that occur among small-holder farmers
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The influence of African swine fever information on consumers’ preference of pork attributes and pork purchase Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Qianfeng Luo, Pengfei Liu, Zhi Li
This paper uses a randomized survey instrument to study the impact of African Swine Fever (ASF) information on Chinese consumers’ preference for pork attributes and purchases during the recent peak of the ASF pandemic in 2019. We study consumers’ preference for pork attributes including brand, meat texture and taste, quality safety assurance, and traceability under different information treatments
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The role of the U.S. exchange-rate equity market volatility on agricultural exports and forecasts Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Kwame Asiam Addey, William Nganje
This article estimates the U.S. state-level soybean export forecast until December 2024 using a seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) model. We utilize the newly developed exchange-rate equity market volatility (EMV-EX) to improve model fit and the Dirichlet process mixture model (DPMM) to control for unobserved heterogeneity. Using monthly data from January 2004 to December 2020
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Can cooperatives help commercial farms to access credit in China? Evidence from Jiangsu Province Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Yuanyuan Peng, H. Holly Wang, Yueshu Zhou
Chinese agriculture is experiencing a transition from smallholder farming to the emergence of commercial farms that are characterized by intensification and specialization in production, as well as commercialization and cooperation in management. It requires substantial capital to facilitate such a transition, but it is very difficult for farmers in China to access bank credit. One way that commercial
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Business Risk Management Program and risk-balancing in Ontario hog sector: An empirical analysis Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Rakhal Sarker, Truc Phan, Yu Na Lee, Alfons Weersink
Business risk management (BRM) has been an important focus of Canadian agricultural policy in the New Millennium. Safety net payments received by farmers can alter their investment portfolio and lead to risk-balancing behavior in agriculture. Risk-balancing is an unintended consequence of the farm safety net program and has a direct implication for future growth and sustainability of farm business
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The effects of bundling on livestock producers' valuations of environmentally friendly traits available through genomic selection Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 David Worden, Getu Hailu, Kate Jones, Yu Na Lee
This study estimates the willingness to pay (WTP) premiums for two novel traits available through genomic technologies in the dairy industry. Using a contingent valuation method to elicit WTP and the data from mail surveys collected from 486 Canadian dairy producers, we find a positive WTP premium for feed efficiency and a negative or zero WTP premium for reduced methane emissions. However, we observe
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New online market connecting Chinese consumers and small farms to improve food safety and environment Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 H. Holly Wang, Yu Jiang, Shaosheng Jin, Qiujie Zheng
In emerging economies where small farms are the main source of food supply, it is costly for the government to monitor and control food safety and production impact on the environment. However, the online food market can potentially give farmers stronger incentives to supply safer and more eco-friendly products, as they can access a national market where consumers are interested in healthy food, and
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Gender diversity, sustainability reporting, CEO overconfidence, and efficient risk-taking: Evidence from South Asian agri-food industry Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Farzan Yahya, Li Meiling, Chien-Chiang Lee, Muhammad Waqas, Zhang Shaohua
This article aims to understand the impact of board gender diversity (BGD) on the firm's deviation from efficient risk-taking (DERT) along with the mediating effect of sustainability reporting and the moderating effect of CEO overconfidence. The sample consists of 77 South Asian agri-food firms over the period 2010–2019. To account for endogeneity and other statistical biases, we use a system GMM approach
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Willingness to pay for multiple dimensions of green open space: Applying a spatial hedonic approach Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Ziwei Hu, Hotaka Kobori, Brent Swallow, Feng Qiu
To optimize land conservation strategies with limited resources, it is necessary to understand people's preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for green open space. The hedonic pricing method (HPM) is widely used. However, the conventional HPM assumes no value spillovers between neighbouring properties. Here we adopt a spatial regression approach that allows us to relax the no-spillover assumption
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Analysis of impacts of inflation on the distribution of household consumption expenditures Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Lester D. Taylor
As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic of early 2020, production in the United States, as in much of the world, largely came to a standstill. Unemployment in the United States quickly rose from 3.5% in February to 13.2% in May, quarter-to-quarter GDP fell 7.8%, and substantial transfers were enacted to maintain household income. The resulting mismatch between aggregate supply and demand not surprisingly
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An economic analysis of production efficiency: Evidence from Irish farms Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Jean-Paul Chavas, Doris Läpple, Bradford Barham, Emma Dillon
The objective of this paper is to investigate the economics of production efficiency of dairy farms, with a specific focus on the role of agricultural policy. Our analysis is based on a representative sample of Irish dairy farms, ranging from 2000 to 2018, which includes a period of major change in EU dairy policy. Based on a multi-input multi-output production system, we first estimate technical,
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Why did China's cost-reduction-oriented policies in food safety governance fail? The collective action dilemma perspective Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Yiqing Su, Hailong Yu, Menglin Wang, Xinqi Li, Yanyan Li
Consumer participation plays an important role in improving food safety. Current research shows that reducing associated costs can promote consumer participation; however, the cost-reduction-oriented policies adopted by the Chinese government has had little impact on consumer participation. This study explores the reasons for the failure of the Chinese cost-reduction-oriented policies in food safety
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A portion cap rule with two products: An experimental evaluation Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-29 José G. Nuño-Ledesma
Portion cap rules have been proposed to regulate the consumption of foods and ingredients deemed unhealthy. Challenging common intuition, previous theoretical work posits that, when the seller leverages bundling to price-discriminate, buyers are not necessarily affected and some may even benefit from a quantity restriction. I conduct an experiment designed to test this claim. In the laboratory, human
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A survey of literature examining farmland prices: A Canadian focus Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-23 B. James Deaton, Chad Lawley
This study assesses agricultural economics literature on farmland prices and key determinants of these prices. The first section of the paper uses a basic capitalization model to organize a review of the literature and data. We then provide a focused assessment of five streams of literature examining farmland prices: (1) boom-bust; (2) the capitalization effect of government agricultural subsidies
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Handling the discontinuity in futures prices when time series modeling of commodity cash and futures prices Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Joshua G. Maples, B. Wade Brorsen
Futures prices are discontinuous, with each future price series ending at maturity. Differencing before splicing can create a continuous future return series, but still leaves price levels with discrete jumps. When comparing cash and futures prices, there is a need to either make the futures more like the cash price by adding back the changes at rollover or removing the nonstationarity and seasonality
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Reforming Canada's dairy supply management scheme and the consequences for international trade Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Brennan A. McLachlan, G. Cornelis van Kooten
Following Carter and Mérel (2016), we explore the export benefits of reforming supply management (SM) in Canada's dairy sector. A trade model with ten regions and five dairy product categories is developed and used to examine the potential benefits of opening international markets to Canadian dairy products. In addition to a baseline, three scenarios are compared—one with SM in place but with Canada
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Six decades of environmental resource valuation in Canada: A synthesis of the literature Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 James Macaskill, Patrick Lloyd-Smith
This paper synthesizes Canada's environmental valuation literature over the last six decades. Focusing on primary valuation benefit estimates, we link multiple research outputs from the same data collection effort to obtain an accurate measure of unique studies. We identify a total of 269 unique valuation studies conducted in Canada between 1964 and 2019. The number of valuation studies conducted per
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On the economics of meat processing, livestock queuing, and worker safety Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Bruno Larue
Meat processing plants use inputs in fixed proportions, but these proportions vary with plant size. Shocks to the supply of labor and livestock induce allocative inefficiency, output reductions, and higher unit costs of production. Both labor conflicts and the pandemic caused long labor shortages resulting in unused capacity and large livestock queues. Industry concentration and vertical integration
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Grassland easement evaluation and acquisition with uncertain conversion and conservation returns Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Ruiqing Miao, David A. Hennessy, Hongli Feng
We develop an analytical framework to examine an agency's optimal grassland easement acquisition while accounting for landowners’ optimal decisions under uncertainty in both conversion and conservation returns. We derive the value of “wait and see” (i.e., neither convert nor ease grassland) for landowners and find that grassland-to-cropland conversion probability and easement value vary in opposing
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Spatially explicit modeling of wetland conservation costs in Canadian agricultural landscapes Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Asare Eric, Lloyd-Smith Patrick, Belcher Kenneth
Agriculture is an important source of food, employment, and tax revenue to society. However, agricultural expansion is an important driver of global natural ecosystem degradation, including wetlands. Economic theory shows that wetland loss is caused by a mismatch between the private wetland conservation costs borne by landowners and the public benefits generated. We develop a spatially explicit wetland
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Quality forecasts: Predicting when and how much markets value higher-protein wheat Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Anton Bekkerman
Wheat markets stand out among other major crop commodity markets because pricing at the first point of exchange—typically a grain handling facility—is differentiated on specific quality characteristics. Moreover, the premiums and discounts that elevators offer to obtain grain of specific quality can be significant. The relative importance of quality premiums and discounts to farm-level production and
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Minimum information management and price-abundance relationships in a fishery Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-17 Akbar Marvasti, Sami Dakhlia
We explore the information content of dockside prices and fishing costs in the estimation of stock abundance. Our approach is two-pronged: we first examine whether the implied biomass, that is, the biomass that is consistent with a simple microeconomic model calibrated with observed prices and costs, offers an approximation of actual stock assessments—both agree over the first 20 years of observation
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The impact of price hedging on subsidized insurance: Evidence from Canada Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-13 Peter Slade
This article examines the effect of price hedging on publicly subsidized insurance. Theoretically, the effect of hedging is found to have an ambiguous effect on the incentive to purchase revenue insurance. A simulation is used to analyze the relationship between hedging and the Canadian AgriStability program in three regions in Saskatchewan. AgriStability is a margin insurance product, though in the
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The hold-up problem in China's broiler industry: Empirical evidence from Jiangsu Province Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-06 Shufen Tang, Yuqing Zheng, Taiping Li, Li Zhou
Using detailed survey data on broiler growers, we tested for the existence of hold-up problems in the broiler industry in Jiangsu Province, China. We found that growers’ investments in chicken houses, which are assets with a high degree of physical and location specificity, increased along with the number of potential buyers (integrators) nearby. Such an effect was particularly strong in proximity
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Investment in research and development and export performances of Canadian small and medium-sized agri-food firms Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-13 Lota D. Tamini, Aristide B. Valéa
The objective of this study is to analyze the impact of research and development (R&D) investment on the export performance of Canadian agrifood small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and on that of related sectors, namely, the textile and clothing sector and the manufacture of leather goods and similar products. First, we analyzed explanatory factors for R&D expenses, and then, we analyzed the
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Prices for a second-generation biofuel industry in Canada: Market linkages between Canadian wheat and US energy and agricultural commodities Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-14 Curtis McKnight, Feng Qiu, Marty Luckert, Grant Hauer
The production of biofuels is limited in Canada, but the availability of wheat straw as a second-generation (i.e., cellulosic) feedstock is an exciting prospect for the future development of a biofuel industry. The future success of such a biofuel industry will depend on future ethanol prices and prices related to wheat straw. These prices are likely to be influenced by markets related to the existing
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Learning from neighboring farmers: Does spatial dependence affect adoption of drought-tolerant wheat varieties in China? Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2021-06-09 Hongyun Zheng, Wanglin Ma, Gucheng Li
The adoption of improved crop varieties, such as drought-tolerant varieties, plays a crucial role in addressing climate change. In this study, we explore how and to what extent spatial interactions between farmers and neighboring farmers affect the adoption of drought-tolerant wheat varieties (DTWVs), using data collected from rural households in China. A spatial Durbin probit model is utilized to
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Introduction to the special issue on COVID-19 and the Canadian agriculture and food sectors: Thoughts one year into the pandemic Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Alan P. Ker, Ryan Cardwell
The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to cause significant economic hardship and death throughout the world. While governments have many concerns, an affordable and secure food supply remains a top priority. Based on years of a consumer-driven food system, Canadians have come to expect any food in the form, time, and location desired, always available at a reasonable price. Although
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Food security and Canada's agricultural system challenged by COVID-19: One year later Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-24 B. James Deaton, Brady J. Deaton
This paper assesses the earlier projections made by the authors in March 2020 about the impact of COVID-19 on Canada's food security. First, as measured in the early part of the second quarter of 2020, COVID-19 is associated with an increased prevalence of household food insecurity as measured by Statistics Canada. Also, as we predicted, we did not observe a rapid general increase in food prices that
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The impact of COVID-19 on food retail and food service in Canada: A second assessment Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Ellen Goddard
COVID-19 continues to impose a series of unique challenges on the food retail and food service sectors in Canada. In May 2020, the expectation was that the public health crisis shutdowns of the restaurant sector would be temporary. Although we may still be in a much longer temporary than was originally envisaged, it is becoming clearer that permanent restructuring may also have happened. Grocery stores
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COVID-19 and food processing in Canada Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Getu Hailu
In this paper, I explore the economic activities of the food processing industry during the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. One of the key lessons from food processing and related industries is that without being designated as an essential service and targeted stimulus packages, the food industry could have fallen victim to the COVID-19 crisis. Although the social and economic impacts
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Food supply chain resilience and the COVID-19 pandemic: What have we learned? Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Jill E. Hobbs
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper reflects on the changes that occurred in agrifood supply chains in Canada and the United States. The sudden shift in food consumption patterns from food service to food retail required realignment of food supply chains. For the most part, food supply chains have performed remarkably well during the pandemic. Cross-border food supply chains have continued
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The impact of COVID-19 on the grains and oilseeds sector: 12 months later Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-22 Derek Gerald Brewin
Brewin (2020) was optimistic about the fate of the Canadian grains and oilseeds sector in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic descended on the world. The sector did generate a large crop and, towards the end of 2020, saw a lift in prices. This contributed to record farm income in Canada in 2020. The pace of grain and oilseed exports in Canada and ethanol demand in the east were affected by COVID-19, but
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COVID-19 impact on fruit and vegetable markets: One year later Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-22 Lauren Chenarides, Timothy J. Richards, Bradley Rickard
More than 1 year after the outbreak of COVID-19, Canadian fruit and vegetable markets continue to adjust to the evolving landscape. In this article, we focus on three key measures of input and output market performance that serve as indicators of the stability of fruit and vegetable markets in Canada in the medium-term, and offer some insight for how these markets will continue to adjust in the longer
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Re-examining the implications of COVID-19 on the Canadian dairy and poultry sectors Can. J. Agric. Econ. (IF 9.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Alfons Weersink, Michael von Massow, Brendan McDougall, Nicholas Bannon
The dairy and poultry sectors responded quickly to the initial adjustments in the quantity and nature of food products forced by the shuttering of the hospitality sector and the subsequent switch to buying food from grocery stores. In addition, these sectors were less affected by the labor availability and health issues from COVID-19 (coronavirus disease-2019) that plagued others, such as red meat