Irish agriculture
Technical change and efficiency in Irish agriculture
... The average annual rate of technical change was 0.9 per cent (unweighted) and 2.1 per cent (weighted) over the 1984-98 period. However, technical change was higher in the earlier part of the period compared to the later ...
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Productivity growth in Irish agriculture
... in agriculture using the perpetual inventory method and based on specific assumptions regarding the shape of the capacity depreciation schedule and the average length of service life for different ...recent ...
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Productivity in Irish agriculture
... in Irish agriculture is more important than ever as we try to ascertain how Irish farming will fare in a more liberal market ...of Irish agriculture is ...in agriculture (family ...
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Towards an aggregate production function for Irish agriculture
... Actual £ million Fertiliser and lime Feed and seed Labour Machinery: Interest and depreciation Real estate: Interest on investment Repairs, petrol, oil, etc.. operating expenses Cattle: [r] ...
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The drought of 1887, and some of its effects on Irish agriculture
... The potato being a native of a climate with a much, higher mean summer temperature than Ireland, grew notwithstanding the drought, but owing to the exceptional character of the season, a[r] ...
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Statistical notes on the economic history of Irish agriculture, 1847 1913
... Index Numbers of Output for Cereals, Animal Products and Total Agricultural Production in Ireland and Denmark 1861 = 100... 1847 Ireland : Cereals Animal Products Total.[r] ...
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Two centuries of Irish agriculture a statistical retrospect, 1672 1905
... A contemporary letter speaks of Kildare, Carlow, Kilkenny, Queen's Co., Tipperary, and Limerick as the " granary of England." And, just as in Young's time, the extra growth •of corn seem[r] ...
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The capitalisation of Irish agriculture
... At present many farmers in this country would not know how to use additional capital to the best advantage ; the general idea would be to buy extra land or buy cattle and take land to fe[r] ...
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Irish agriculture and associated industries 1964 effects of various cereal policies
... Thus the total output required from sector 1 cattle is that required by the known final demands given i n Table A.. This is derived from the land use specification which states that tota[r] ...
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Developments in the structure of Irish agriculture, 1960 75 with special reference to the situation in 1975
... While major declines occurred in all size of crop classes, significant structural movements have not taken place and in 1975 some 25 per cent of holdings grew 15 or more acres of wheat a[r] ...
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Making science work on the farm : a workshop on decision support systems for Irish agriculture
... Land based industries such as agriculture, horticulture and forestry are particularly dependent on climate for their operation and are potentially vulnerable to climate change. Creating experimental scenarios ...
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Some aspects of production costs in Irish agriculture, as illustrated by the cost of producing sugar beet
... From the point of view of the National economy as well as from the point of view of the Beet Sugar Industry, the most valuable result of the 1948 beet costings has been the acceptance fo[r] ...
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The structure of production in Irish agriculture: a multiple input multiple output analysis
... To facilitate comparison with empirical work on Northern Ireland agriculture Glass and McKillop, 1989 we have added feedingstuffs and seed together, whereas Boyle 1981 treated these as s[r] ...
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The effect of the war on Irish agriculture
... It is an attempt to show Irish farmers that as a result of the universal war prevailing in Europe we shall have in all probability a bad shortage of all kinds of provisions, both corn an[r] ...
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Fifty years of Irish agriculture
... But since that calculation was made, land is still going out of cultivation, live stock are decreasing in numbers, and prices are falling, so that the average annual value of the total I[r] ...
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Future possibilities of Irish agriculture
... I repeat my conviction that the unsolved problem of cheap winter fodder for cattle can be solved by the new technique of grassland management and grass conservation, that the major porti[r] ...
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Co responsibility and the future of Irish agriculture
... In terms of Figure 1, if it is assumed that prices must be lowered to contain the budget from their 1982 level of OA to OL by 1990, demand will be increased in 1990 from OM to ON as a re[r] ...
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Recent developments in Northern Irish agriculture
... In any case it Jed to a strong reaction from free trade m Britain and a reservation of the home market by quota, levy and direct subsidy Of this movement Northern Ireland gained at least[r] ...
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Some provincial variations in Irish agriculture
... In all years shown the proportion of output attributable to Leinster exceeded that for any other province but whereas in 1926-7 it was but slightly greater than the Munster figure and su[r] ...
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The Potential of an "Agriculture of the Middle" Model in the Context of EU Rural Development: An American Solution to an Irish Problem?
... Arguably, Irish farmers are already producing many foods with cultural and environmental distinctive- ness, but the remaining challenge is for the appli- cation of branding and marketing to enter high value-added ...
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