- Producer benefits from input market and trade
liberalization: the case of fertilizer in China.
In recent years, a number of researchers have documented the impact of China's trade and domestic market liberalization--both positive and negative--on the performance of the rural economy (Huang and Chen; Huang, Rozelle, and Chang). Most of the work, however, has focused on the agricultural output markets. Beyond the impacts that ......
- Fertility Costs Soar
HEADNOTE The president of the Fertilizer Institute says fertility costs continue to rise fueled by the high price of natural gas. GROWERS WATCHING their diesel bill double during harvest have no question in their minds that fuel prices will play a role in their ability to profitably produce cotton in ......
- 4 fertilizer plants.
A Kansas City, Kan.-based company born out of the bankruptcy of Farmland Industries Inc. is about to build four new fertilizer plants in Trinidad, reports Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (Dec. 26, 2004). Coffeyville Resources LLC announced that it would build the ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) fertilizer plants here ......
- Old story, new year: Rising costs pressure 2001 profits
The cost of running a farm, which escalated faster last year than any other time in U.S. history, will continue to put pressure on profitability in the year ahead, says USDA chief economist Keith Collins. In 2000, farm input costs increased a record $8 billion, mainly because of higher diesel ......
- Farmland MissChem acquisition approved
YAZOO CITY - A federal bankruptcy court in Kansas City has approved Koch Nitrogen Company's purchase of selected fertilizer assets from Farmland Industries, including a 50% interest in FarmLand MissChem, Ltd. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close this spring. The purchase, valued at $293 ......
- Producing the Elements Vital to Products
The chemical industry has been a vital part of New Jersey since the earlier half of the nineteenth cen tury Pre-Civil War manufacturing of chemical fertilizer was one of the first chemical-related endeavors to hit the Garden State. Around 1870, New Jersey became part of the introduction and growth of ......
- ESTIMATING CROP-SPECIFIC PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES IN
CHINESE AGRICULTURE: A GENERALIZED MAXIMUM ENTROPY
APPROACH.
A generalized maximum entropy approach is adapted to empirically estimate crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture. Despite a modest behavioral assumption about equal marginal returns of nonland inputs among crops, this method does not require price information, which is usually distorted in a centrally planned economy such as China. A ......