Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm and Resource Issues articles from September 2000

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm and Resource Issues archives from September 2000

* FARMING THE INTERNET.
September 22, 2000... "... farmers and ranchers who take advantage of the Internet will gain greater access to markets, be more successful and more credit-worthy." Heuer, R. "Dot-coms Shake-Up Ag Industry." Ag Lender: Profitable Lending to Agriculture 4, no. 6(June...

* CHINA'S DIET.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... "... China's dietary pattern is indeed moving from the developing country [pattern] toward the developed country [pattern], but its direction is not toward the U.S. Increases in meat consumption are accompanied by increases in seafood...

* INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS.(Excerpt)
September 22, 2000... "I believe [institutional economics] lives on today as a lively element inside today's mainstream economics. U.S. economics has always been more empirical -- more "econometric" if you will -- than the German Historical School ever was. Labor...

* CONTINGENT VALUATION.
September 22, 2000... "It is suggested that the CVM enquiry process can be understood not just as a way to obtain information about people's preference quantified in 'commodity' terms of price for a given good/service, but more profoundly as a reciprocal learning...

* FROM THE PAST.(Excerpt)
September 22, 2000... "It is an interesting time to be leaning over the fences of America's Farms. There are discussions, even arguments, in the land about whether farmers ought to change the way they farm... There have been arguments like this heard before......

* GMs IN THE UK.(genetically modified foods)(Excerpt)
September 22, 2000... "GM food remains contentious, though rarely because of specific hazards, and for reasons marginal to the risk assessment procedure. There has been little expert disagreement, though a few scientists claim that the GM process generates...

* EXPERT OPINION.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... "Different users assess expert opinion from different positions. These involve different interests, and therefore, it is inevitable that the credibility of the opinion will be articulated differently. In certain cases the articulation is as...

* MECHANIZATION.(Excerpt)
September 22, 2000... "Case studies of rice and processing tomatoes show that harvest mechanization has reduced labor use by 92% to 97% and has also reduced labor costs, down from half to two-thirds of total costs to less than 20%." Thompson, J.F. and S.C. Blank....

* PESTICIDES.(Excerpt)
September 22, 2000... "There are widely held concerns over environmental contamination from agricultural pesticide applications in Europe. Until recently, the prevailing view was that if pesticides were applied properly, that is, in accordance with manufacturers'...

Limited Vision and Unintended Consequences.(agricultural economics)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Limited vision can result in unintended outcomes as we do our work. How can we counter it? The answer is not simple. Remember when regression analysis first swept us away? Industry wanted applications, but academics wanted models....

Gallery.
September 22, 2000... SIMEON EHUI, a national of Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) obtained his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University. Currently, he is Coordinator of the Livestock Policy Analysis Program at the International Livestock Research Institute. ...

China: They will SELL or BUY?(decline in poultry and pork net exports)(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... Poultry and pork productivity is growing by leaps and bounds. If demand slides, they could become a fierce competitor. China's future role in international agricultural trade continues to be a puzzle. Part of this puzzle, namely that...

WATER PRESSURE.(conservation not promoted by irrigation water price chain)(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... Why the price chain for federally-developed irrigation water doesn't promote conservation. Growing municipal, industrial, recreational and environmental water demands are taxing the limited water supplies in the West. Traditionally,...

FQPA: Origin and Outcome.(Food Quality Protection Act changes outlook on pesticides)
September 22, 2000... Four years after enactment, many are wondering whether FQPA needs to be amended, or if the EPA is going beyond what the Act allows. On August 3, 1996, the U.S. Congress unanimously voted for significant changes to the Federal Insecticide,...

Apples, Kids and Core Science.(Food Quality Protection Act addresses pesticides and vulnerable groups)(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... FQPA is the first U.S. environmental statute to direct regulations to use advanced risk assessment and management methods in dealing with "vulnerable groups." In its landmark 1993 report Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children, the...

FQPA: A Farmer's Perspective.(Food Quality Protection Act)
September 22, 2000... New provisions make sense only if EPA uses real data and reliable information for its assessments. My farm is in northeastern Pennsylvania. I grow tomatoes, pumpkins, wheat, field corn and sweet corn. Without safe crop protection products,...

Working Out the Bugs.(integrated pest management model studied in Wisconsin)(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... A continuing effort in Wisconsin models a promising pathway toward addressing both public and producer concerns over pesticide risk and pest control. Farmers are under increasing pressure to develop and utilize less toxic methods of pest...

A Short Web-based Bibliography.(Food Quality Protection Act)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
September 22, 2000... Hundreds of authors and commentators have written about various aspects of the Food Quality Protection Act. The law has been subject to alternative interpretations and to much controversy. One short bibliography cannot provide access to...

Sleeping After Seattle?(liberalized agricultural trade in World Trade Organization)(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... High hopes for more liberalized trade were dashed when the Seattle meetings ended without agreement. Here's what was expected and what's happened since. The global trading system is in transition. At the end of World War II, industrial...

Comments.(Letter to the Editor)
September 22, 2000... Luther Tweeten's Guest Editorial in the Second Quarter 2000 issue brought forth a deluge of comment. Modern technology allowed these to arrive as one- or two-sentence e-mail messages and as phone calls that left no fingerprints and nothing to...

Graphically Speaking Phosphorus Available.(manure buildup not near cropland)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Don't Call It Waste: Increased integration in the poultry and swine industries has resulted in increased efficiencies in production, processing, and marketing as well as concentration of the industries in regions with a readily available...

Moving Toward CIVIC Agriculture.(locally-based system linked to social and economic community development)(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... While civic agriculture does not represent a challenge to the conventional agriculture and food industry, it does include some innovative ways to produce, process, and distribute food. Civic Agriculture. The name evokes many situations, but...

Is Economics Credible? Whatever Happened to Pareto?(response to guest editorial about alternative agricultural advocates)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Leroy Hushak, and Frederic Hitzhusen, The Ohio State University In his 2nd Quarter CHOICES guest editorial, Luther Tweeten discusses his experiences working with alternative agricultural advocates (AAAs). He characterizes them as powerful,...

Corrections to Choices.(Correction Notice)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Our Apology From "Findings" in First Quarter, 2000. FQ 2000 listed E. Wesley and F. Peter son as two authors of a brief sketch regarding the Kyoto Protocol. In fact, there is only one author, Professor E. Wesley F. Peterson of the...