William D. McBride

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)

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1.

The Transformation of U.S. Livestock Agriculture Scale, Efficiency, and Risks

Economic Information Bulletin No. 43
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 06 Mar 2009
James M. MacDonald and William D. McBride
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)
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Livestock, dairy, broilers, hogs, fed cattle, farm structure, scale economies, contract agriculture, CAFO's, growth-promoting antibiotics

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Profits, Costs, and the Changing Structure of Dairy Farming

USDA-ERS Economic Research Report No. 47
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Jan 2008
James M. MacDonald, William D. McBride, Erik O'Donoghue, Richard F. Nehring, Carmen Sandretto and Roberto Mosheim
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)
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Dairy farming, economies of scale, economies of size,dairy farm structure, milk costs

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Economics of Antibiotic Use in U.S. Livestock Production

USDA, Economic Research Report Number 200, November 2015
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 07 Jun 2017
Stacy Sneeringer, James M. MacDonald, Nigel Key, William D. McBride and Kenneth Mathews
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)
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Antibiotics, livestock, United States, economics, prices, feed efficiency, production purposes, antimicobials, growth promotion, policy analysis, disease prevention

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The Conservation Reserve Program: Economic Implications for Rural America

USDA-ERS Agricultural Economic Report No. 834
Number of pages: 112 Posted: 19 Nov 2004
Patrick Sullivan, Daniel Hellerstein, LeRoy Hansen, Robert Johansson, Steven Koenig, Ruben N. Lubowski, William D. McBride, David A. McGranahan, Michael J. Roberts, Stephen J. Vogel and Shawn Bucholz
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), Resource and Rural Economics Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), Environmental Defense Fund, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)
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Conservation Reserve Program, CRP, rural development, rural employment, land retirement impacts, land-use changes, recreation spending

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The Changing Economics of U.S. Hog Production

USDA-ERS Economic Research Report No. 52, December 2007
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 17 Jan 2008
Nigel Key and William D. McBride
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)
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Hogs, farm productivity, production contracts, pork prices, scale of production, farm structure, total factor productivity

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Economic and Structural Relationships in U.S. Hog Production

USDA-ERS Agricultural Economic Report No. 818
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 13 Jul 2005
William D. McBride and Nigel Key
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)
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Hog production, industry structure, structural change, production costs, contract production, manure management

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Corn and Soybean Production Costs and Export Competitiveness in Argentina, Brazil, and the United States

USDA Economic Information Bulletin 154, June 2016
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 07 Jun 2017
Birgit Meade, Estefania Puricelli, William D. McBride, Constanza Valdes, Linwood Hoffman, Linda Foreman and Erik Dohlman
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), Independent, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) – Economic Research Service (ERS)
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Cost of production, soybeans, corn, United States, Brazil, Argentina, export competitiveness

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Characteristics, Costs and Issues for Organic Dairy Farming

USDA Economic Research Report No. 82
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 21 Nov 2009
William D. McBride and Catherine Greene
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)
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dairy, organic, milk production, costs of production, pasture, Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS)

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The Diverse Structure and Organization of U.S. Beef Cow-Calf Farms

USDA-ERS Economic Information Bulletin No. 73
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 28 Jul 2012
William D. McBride and Kenneth Mathews
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)
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Beef cow-calf production, farm income, animal traceability, Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS), National Animal Identification System (NAIS)

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Trends and Developments in Hog Manure Management: 1998-2009

USDA, Economic Research Service, Economic Information Bulletin Number 81, 2011
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 07 Jun 2017
Nigel Key, William D. McBride, Marc Ribaudo and Stacy Sneeringer
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)
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Hog production, manure management, structural change, environmental regulation

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Characteristics and Production Costs of U.S. Hog Farms, 2004

USDA-ERS Economic Information Bulletin No. 32
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 17 Jan 2008
William D. McBride and Nigel Key
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)
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Agriculture, swine, hogs, hog production, hog operations, Agricultural Resource Management Survey, production costs, economies of size

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U.S. Hog Production from 1992 to 2009: Technology, Restructuring, and Productivity Growth

USDA Economic Research Report Number 158, October 2013
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 07 Jun 2017
William D. McBride and Nigel Key
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)
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Hogs, pigs, farm productivity, production contracts, pork prices, scale of production, farm structure, total factor productivity, concentration, Agricultural Resource Management Survey

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The Profit Potential of Certified Organic Field Crop Production

USDA, Economic Research Service Economic Research Report Number 188 July 2015
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 07 Jun 2017
William D. McBride, Catherine Greene, Linda Foreman and Mir Ali
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)
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corn, wheat, soybeans, organic and conventional production, average treatment-effect, propensity-score matching, regression with endogenous treatment-effects, Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS)

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Policy Reform in the Tobacco Industry: Producers Adapt to a Changing Market

Economic Research Service, Paper No. EIB-77
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 04 Mar 2012
Linda Foreman and William D. McBride
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)
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Tobacco, structural change, farm adjustments, adaptations, Agricultural Resources Management Survey (ARMS)

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U.S. Rice Production in the New Millennium: Changes in Structure, Practices, and Costs

Economic Research Service, Economic Research Bulletin Number 202, December 2018
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 04 Jan 2019
William D. McBride
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)
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rice, farm productivity, hybrid seed, precision farming, cost-of-production, economies of size, Agricultural Resource Management Survey

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Production Contracts and Productivity in the U.S. Hog Sector

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 85, pp. 121-133, 2003
Posted: 11 Apr 2003
Nigel Key and William D. McBride
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)

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Production Contracts, Productivity, Sample Selection, Technological Difference