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2019-01-01
Muringai, Violet, Goddard, Ellen
Trust is an important element of effective relationships, including business relationships. In agriculture and food, public trust has sometimes been affected by food safety problems and by hesitation or misunderstanding about production practices, including the use of new technologies. In this...
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Reducing Investment Risk in Tractors and Combines with Improved Terminal Asset Value Forecasts
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Mumey, Glen, Unterschultz, Jim
Secondary asset market data for combines and tractors used to estimate and separate out historical economic depreciation, embodied technological change and time value change. Combines and tractors generally exhibit constant geometric economic depreciation on a year to year basis. Depreciation...
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Reflecting Productivity Losses due to Erosion in Physical and Financial Accounts for Agricultural Soils
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The paper describes an approach to estimating the long-term impact of soil erosion, and applies that approach to data from the Province of Alberta, Canada. This paper relies upon a soil classification system established in Canada, known as the Canada Land Inventory (CLI). It also employs...
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Reframing Agricultural Extension Education Services in Industrially Developed Countries: A Canadian Perspective
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Some of the material discussed in this paper was initially presented to a group of professionals in the Cooperative Extension Unit of the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education. In keeping with the theme of the session 'Extension's Odyssey to the Future' it became necessary to...
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Regional Food Clusters and Government Support for Clustering: Evidence for a 'Dynamic Food Innovation Cluster' in Alberta, Canada?
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This paper analyzes government support for networking and regional cluster growth in the food sector. It is, to the best of our knowledge, the first paper to provide a literature review of studies on regional food clusters, focusing on key features that characterize successful regional food...
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Report of Discussions: Workshop on Applications of Complex Systems Science and Method to Agriculture, Rural and Environmental Issues
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Apedaile, L. Peter, Schilizzi, Steven
This workshop on complex systems has a history of several years of cooperative work by four of its members. It all started with the study leave from the University of Alberta of Peter Apedaile, at the Agricultural Systems Department of INRA in France with Steven Schilizzi. Herb Freedman and Mark...
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2010
Petigara, M., Laate, E., Unterschultz, Jim, Boxall, Peter C., Adamowicz, Wiktor, Forbes, K., Jordan, M., Dridi, C., Parlee, B., Myshaniuk, K., Zimmer, N., Arnot, C.
This report summarizes a series of projects undertaken by staff and students in the Department of Rural Economy which examine various socio-economic aspects of chronic wasting disease and its effect on a range of stakeholders in Alberta. The four projects included exploring impacts on the cervid...
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Results from the Farm Behaviour Component of the Integrated Economic-Hydrologic Model for the Watershed Evaluation of Beneficial Management Practices Program: Summary of Phase 1 Progress
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Cutlac, Marius, Weber, Marian, Samarawickrema, Antony, Boxall, Peter C., Perger, Orsolya
This report summarizes preliminary results from the Farm Behavior component of the South Tobacco Creek Integrated Modeling Project (STC Project) which is being undertaken as part of the Watershed Evaluation of BMPs (WEBs) Program. WEBS is a partnership between Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada...
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Retaining Financial Capital for Rural Community Development: A Case Study of the Town of Olds, Alberta
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Parkins, John R., Chenard, Carolyn
Financial capital is an important component of rural community development and a key aspect of community resilience. Yet residents often transfer their wealth into investment vehicles such as GICs and bonds that are external to their community. This exodus of financial capital is often in...
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1993
Akabua, Kojo M., Bauer, Leonard, Phillips, William E.
The objective of this study was to analyze the performance of Alberta farmland relative to investment opportunities from financial securities. It is an extension of an earlier study undertaken by Mercier (1988) and Philllips et al. (1989). This study re-examines the period from 1964 to 1985, and...