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The Agricultural Act of 2014
(2014-11)Provides an overview of the final regulations for commodity and dairy programs in new farm bill. -
Agricultural BMPs and Cost-Sharing
(2014-12-16)This presentation was delivered at the 2014 Policy and Outlook Conference. The focus is on the impact of cost-sharing and the adoption of BMPs in Maryland. -
Agricultural Conflict Resolution Service
(2014-06-18)Mae Johnson's presentation from June 18th, 2014 covering an overview of the ACReS program in Maryland for the MSBA's section on Agricultural Law -
AGRICULTURAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION SERVICE (ACReS)
(2015-02)Presentation delivered by Mae Johnson of Maryland Department of Agriculture during the 2015 Ag Lease Workshops. -
Agricultural Law Education Initiative Brochure
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Agricultural Leasing in Maryland
(2013-07-11)Maryland farmers understand the importance of leases in their operations. From land to equipment, Maryland farmers use varying forms of agreements in their business operations. With the leasing of land, leases for a period ... -
AGRICULTURAL POLICY AND PRODUCTION IN THE PRESENCE OF RISK AND INCOMPLETE FINANCIAL MARKETS
(2017)Economic interventions are rarely free of debate, hence it should come as no surprise that governmental agricultural policies are usually surrounded in controversy. A topic of debate in the World Trade Organization (WTO) ... -
Agriculture, Environmental Incentive Payments, and Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay
(2016)Nonpoint sources (NPS) pollution from agriculture is the leading source of water quality impairment in U.S. rivers and streams, and a major contributor to lakes, wetlands, estuaries and coastal waters (U.S. EPA 2016). ... -
An analysis of regulatory decisions on food-use pesticides under the Food Quality and Protection Act
(2012)To ensure the safety of older pesticides used in the United States, the EPA required the reregistration of pesticide uses which were first introduced before 1984. Using a dataset of reregistration outcomes for 2722 pesticide ... -
An Analysis of Sector Allocations in Commercial Fisheries
(2010)The formation of harvest cooperatives has recently generated considerable interest among fishermen and regulators as an alternative to other rights-based systems such as individual transferable quotas. Many consider the ... -
ANALYZING MILLET PRICE REGIMES AND MARKET PERFORMANCE IN NIGER WITH REMOTE SENSING DATA
(2013)This dissertation concerns the analysis of staple food prices and market performance in Niger using remotely sensed vegetation indices in the form of normalized differenced vegetation index (NDVI). By exploiting the link ... -
Antidumping Effects in the Presence of Collusion in an Upstream Market: the case of U.S. frozen shrimp imports from Thailand
(2009)Many studies have shown a relationship between antidumping duty and collusion. These studies, however, only focus on collusion in output (downstream) market, i.e. collusion between import competing firms and exporters, or ... -
ARC/ PLC and SCO 2015 Risk Management Decisions
(2014-09)This presentation was presented as a part of the 2014 Delaware and Maryland Crop Insurance Workshop. -
Assessing the Efficacy of NPDES Regulation: Permit Writers' Decisions, Plants' Responses, and Impact of Pollutants on Water Quality
(2008-11-17)This study provides indirect evidence that the Clean Water Act (CWA), implemented through the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) regulation, has been effective in terms of inducing certain 'best practice' ... -
Asymmetric Information and Alternate Premium Rating Methods in U.S. Crop Insurance: A Comparison of High and Low Risk Regions
(2008-04-01)Federally subsidized crop insurance has a long history of underwriting losses. These losses may be due to premium rating procedures that do not account, as fully as possible, for differences in yield loss risk across farms. ... -
The Attitudes of Volunteer Leaders in Cecil, Harford and Kent Counties, Maryland Toward Involvement of Handicapped in 4-H Programs
(1982)The purpose of this exploratory study was to determine if volunteer 4-H leaders in Cecil, Harford, and Kent Counties in Maryland were receptive towards involvement of handicapped youth in 4-H programs and if training ... -
A balancing act? An empirical examination of whether the dynamic balance policy has helped China reduce cultivated land loss amid rapid urban land expansion
(2011)For decades, the Chinese government has been concerned about its ability to meet the grain self-sufficiency goal due to the depletion of cultivated land caused by urbanization and industrialization. The Dynamic Balance ...