These links contain electronic
publications and data from AIC projects.
Some of this material has not been printed in AIC publications
and is not available elsewhere.
See also: Database sources
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Traceability, Food Safety, and Industry Reputation
(Nov., 2008, pdf, 325 kb) Sebastien Pouliot and Daniel A. Sumner.
When authorities are unable to identify the origin of the tainted product, food recalls are often applied to all suppliers, including to products not linked to the contamination. One role of traceability is to identify more specifically the origin of a product, enabling more targeted recalls. In this article, we show how increased traceability contributes to protect the reputation of firms by potentially limiting the size of product recalls.
Economic Effects of Proposed Restrictions on
Egg-laying Hen Housing in California
A ballot initiative in California that would place restrictions on the housing of commercial egg-laying hens is scheduled for the fall 2008 election. This study has considered the economic implications of regulations that would eliminate the use of cage housing systems for egg production in California.
Executive summary, PDF, 65 KB
Full report, PDF, 1.55 MB
California Agroecosystem Services:
Assessment, Valuation and Policy Perspective -
Proceedings from the Sept 2007 workshop
Combined pdf of 4 papers below (pdf, 3120 kb)
A Framework for Assessment of California Agroecosystems
Tom Tomich, Kelly Garbach, Canter, Agricultural Sustainability Institute, UC Davis (pdf, 2400 kb)
Modeling Agroecosystem Services for Policy Analysis
John Antle, Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University
(pdf, 190 kb)
Evaluating Regulation and Conservation Policy
for California’s Agri-environmental Externalities
Nicolai V. Kuminoff, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech. (pdf, 575 kb)
Using Biophysical Information in Policies for Agroecosystem Services in California
Louise Jackson, Department of Air, Water, and Land Resources, UC Davis (pdf, 440 kb)
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2007
FARM BILL INFORMATION
AIC Farm Bill briefs provide information on the 2007 Farm
Bill of particular relevance for California.
The Effects of Market Power on the size and Distribution of Benefits from the Ethanol Subsidy (Aug. 2007, pdf, 220kb). Tina L. Saitone, Richard J. Sexton and Steven E. Sexton. This paper develops a model for determining the production and price impacts and distribution benefits from the U.S. ethanol subsidy when upstream sellers in the seed sector and downstream buyers in the processing sector may exercise market power.
Agricultural Exports for
California (April 2007)
This link provides information on the history, methods
and resulting data from the AIC effort to develop methods
that result in more accurate statistics for international
exports of California agricultural products.
Statistical Review of California Organic Agriculture 2000-2005 (May 2007, pdf, 1Mb). Karen Klonsky and Kurt Richter. This publication quantifies the current size and growth of the organic industry in California in terms of acres, farm gate sales and number of growers statewide and by commodity, commodity group, county, and region, based on California Department of Agriculture registration data from 1999-2005.
Effects of Price Premiums for Multiple Product Attributes on Product Quality: California Processing Tomatoes (Nov. 2006, pdf, 81 kb) Corinne Alexander, Rachael E. Goodhue, Sandeep Mohapatra, and Gordon C. Rausser examine how growers respond to price incentives and how these incentives interact for two important processing tomato quality attributes: limited use tomatoes and material other than tomatoes.
Agriculture's
Role in the Economy. November 2006 preprint
draft chapter five in "The Measure of California
Agriculture, 2006." This chapter summarizes
the direct and multiplier effects of agriculture
in the California economy and regions of the State.
It also discusses California agriculture in the global
context.
Aggregate
Costs and Benefits of Government Invasive Species Control
Activities Daniel A. Sumner, Henrich Brunke and Marcia
Kreith. (pdf, 163kb, September 2006. Forthcoming in the
Proceedings of The International Conference on the Future
of Agriculture: Science, Stewardship, and Sustainability,
August 7-9, 2006.)
The Measure
of California Agriculture, Highlights. July 2006.
(pdf, brochure format, print on legal size paper)
EU
Support Reductions Would Benefit California Tomato Growers
and Processors (pdf, 5.8mb)
Bradley J.Rickard and Daniel A. Sumner. Article in October
- December 2006 issue of California Agriculture, which
presents simulation model results from a 50 percent reduction
in European Union trade barriers and subsidies.
Supply
and Demand for Commodity Components: Implications of Free
Trade versus the AUSFTA for the U.S. Dairy Industry
Julian M. Alston, Joseph V. Balagtas, Daniel A. Sumner,
and Henrich Brunke
This paper presents a simulation model of world dairy
markets, represented by supply and demand equations for
fat and nonfat components of milk and manufactured dairy
products. We use the model to analyze the effects on U.S.
milk markets of both a hypothetical agreement, allowing
free bilateral trade in dairy products, and the actual
Australian-US Free Trade Agreement.
Alpaca Lies? Do
Alpacas Represent the Latest Speculative Bubble in Agriculture?
(pdf)
T.L. Saitone and R.J. Sexton, September 2005.
Economic Data and
Projections for Analysis of Dairy Trade on a Component
Basis.
Henrich Brunke, Daniel A. Sumner, Julian M. Alston, and
Joseph V. Balagtas. Data appendix to paper on "Supply
and Demand for Commodity Components: Implications of Free
Trade versus the AUSFTA for the U.S. Dairy Industry."
The Measure of California Agriculture
Summary card facts
Updated 2005 (.pdf file)
Economics
of Strawberry Productions with Alternative Fumigants
Rachael Goodhue, Karen Klonsky and Steve Fennimore. A
summary presentation on results of Oxnard and Watsonville
field trials with alternatives to methy bromide fumigation.
Marketing Profiles
of Important California Commodities
This website contains short industry profiles on important
California commodities with an emphasis on
production, marketing, consumption, value added, trade
and price trends for these commodities in the last one
to two decades.
How Serious is the Threat of Mad
Cow Disease?
A video seminar held February 5,
2004 at UC Davis
On December 23, 2003 the U.S. was shocked by the news
of a case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE or
more commonly mad cow disease) found in a dairy farm in
Washington state. To provide information about the implication
of this event, AIC's Daniel Sumner and José Bervejillo
and Dean Cliver of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
participated in a seminar discussion sponsored by the
UC Davis Institute of Governmental Affairs. Cliver reviewed
the basics of the BSE and provided an assessment of human
and animal health consequences. Sumner and Bervejillo
assessed the economic impact of this first case of mad
cow disease in the U.S. and the implications of the new
federal regulations on the livestock industry.
Play video. http://media.ucdavis.edu:8080/ramgen/MadCow/IGAMadCow02-05-04.rm
(requires RealPlayer http://www.real.com/)
Compensating
Landowners for Conserving Agricultural Land
Compensating landowners is an increasingly important approach
for maintaining working landscapes, especially in the
face of urban expansion. As an alternative or supplement
to government land use planning and regulation, landowner
payments recognize the multiple public benefits of keeping
farmland in the hands of farmers. The papers included
in this collection (products of an April, 2003, conference
in Sacramento) describe, evaluate, and suggest variations
in a range of compensatory techniques, including: (1)
property tax preferences for farmland allowed by state
governments; (2) federal cost-share conservation payments
administered by USDA; (3) federal payments for the temporary
retirement of cropland; and (4) agricultural easements
created through the acquisition of development rights
from landowners.
261 pages, 8.5 x 11, softcover edition, Download
book in .pdf format (large file size)
Assessing the
Role of NAFTA in California Agriculture: A Review of Trends
and Economic Relationships
Henrich Brunke and Daniel A. Sumner investigate the impacts
the North American Free Trade Agreement on California
agriculture. This is a study the Agricultural Issues Center
conducted in collaboration with the California Farm Bureau
Federation thirteen years after an agreement for free
trade with Canada and eight years after Mexico was added
to create the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Trade-Weighted
Exchange Rates
This site provides links to the trade-weighted exchange
rate indices for major traded California commodities.
The Measure of California
Agriculture Summary card facts
Updated May 2003 (.pdf file)
See also: The Measure
of California Agriculture Summary card facts
Updated 2005 (.pdf file) and The
Measure of California Agriculture, Highlights, July
2006 (pdf, brochure format, print on legal size paper)
China agricultural
production, trade, and cost of production data.
This site contains China agricultural data on production,
cost of production, and trade. The information was created
by Scott Rozelle, Hengyun Ma, and Lan Li from the department
of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis.
Private Investment in Exotic
Pest Control Technology: The Case of Silverleaf Whitefly
in California (pdf)
Karen M. Jetter, Julian M. Alston, and Robert J. Farquharson
examine the economic benefits from the development and
adoption of the new pest management technology by several
vegetable industries that are susceptible to the silverleaf
whitefly. Specifically, broccoli, cauliflower, cantaloupe,
head lettuce and leaf lettuce, and fresh tomatoes are
analyzed.
Economic Consequences of
European Union Processing Tomato Subsidies (pdf)
Daniel A. Sumner, Bradley J. Rickard, and David S. Hart
analyze the impacts of EU processed tomato industry export
subsidies, import barriers, and domestic subsidies on
EU producers, consumers and taxpayers and on processed
tomato market participants outside the EU.
Potential Impact of Foot and
Mouth Disease in California: The role and contribution
of animal health surveillance and monitoring services
(pdf)
Javier M. Ekboir investigates the economic consequences
for California's livestock industry of the sudden appearance
of foot-and-mouth disease.
The Measure of California
Agriculture, 2000
This publication documents California agriculture and
its relationships to the rest of the economy by providing
statistical details and an overview of unifying forces
and trends. Selected key facts from this publication are
listed in bullet form in The
Measure of California Agriculture, 2000, Summary Cards
(pdf).
See also updated June
2003 Summary Cards
California Farmers and Conservation
Easements: Motivations, Experiences, and Perceptions in
Three Counties (pdf)
By Ellen Rilla and Alvin D. Sokolow, with the assistance
of Robin Kozloff and Cathy Lemp. Research Paper #4 in
AIC's California Farmland & Open Space Policy Series,
December 2000. (
Agriculture in the Sacramento
Region, Trends and Prospects
This link provides a detailed portrait of agriculture
in the lower Sacramento Valley, and of the economic and
policy trends that are shaping its future.
Web Survey Results
In 1998 AIC conducted a survey of internet use in California
agriculture. The more than 250 completed responses that
we received provide useful information on the adoption
and diffusion of Internet applications.
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