Best management practices for pork production.

Best Management Practices or BMPs refer to operating techniques and good housekeeping principals for reducing and preventing environmental problems. The overall philosophy behind BMPs is to conduct everyday activities in a more environmentally sound manner. By using BMPs, a facility can help protect the environment, save money, and improve community well-being all at the same time.

Boll, fiber, and spinning properties of cotton as affected by management practices

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Interim report of the Governor's Committee on Improper Labor and Management Practices.

Mode of access: Internet.

Management practices on public lands: hearings, Ninety-second Congress, first [and second] session[s], on S. 350, a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to Institute Programs designed to reforest and restore the quality of public and private forest lands; to enhance and expand recreational opportunity on such lands; to provide financial incentives to improve management of state and private forest lands; to establish a federal forest lands management fund; to facilitate public participation in Federal Resource Management; and to enhance the quality of the environment ad the resources of the public lands; [and] S. 1734, a bill to provide for comprehensive management of the nation's forest lands through the application of sound forest practices, and for other purposes.

Frank Church, subcommittee chairman.

Review of the federal crop insurance system : hearings before the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, March 15, April 26, 2006.

"Serial no. 109-27."

Hearing to review proposals to amend the program crop provisions of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 : hearing before the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, April 26, 2007.

"Serial no. 110-14."

Hearing to review the federal crop insurance program : hearing before the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, May 14, 2007.

"Serial no. 110-22."

Hearing to review reauthorization of the Commodity Exchange Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, Wednesday, September 26, 2007.

Shipping list no.: 2009-0291-P.

Hearing to review the state of the crop insurance industry : hearing before the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, Tuesday, May 1, 2007.

"Serial no. 110-15."

Hearing to review the state of agriculture in Kansas : hearing before the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, June 5, 2007, Salina, KS.

Shipping list no.: 2009-0314-P.

Hearing to review the proposals to amend the program crop provisions of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 : hearing before the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, March 28, 2007.

"Serial no. 110-9."

Hearing to review trading of energy-based derivatives : hearing before the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, Thursday, July 12, 2007.

"Serial no. 110-26."

Profitable lumber retailing; a presentation of profit-creating management practices and sales promotion methods as applied to the retailing of all building materials,

Mode of access: Internet.

The relationship between exchange rate exposure, currency risk management and performance of international equity funds

This paper assesses the currency risk management policies for a sample of Australian international equity trusts. The relevance of currency risk management is considered in the context of exchange rate exposure and performance measures. The study incorporates differing economic climates and particular emphasis is given to the Asian crisis in mid-1997. Our results indicate that a good proportion of funds do implement specific currency risk management policies. Furthermore, we find that for those funds managing currency risk, there is some evidence of a favourable impact on currency exposure and fund performance.

Technological and financial approaches to risk management in agriculture: an integrated approach

In the present paper, risk-management problems where farmers manage risk both through production decisions and through the use of market-based and informal risk-management mechanisms are considered. It is shown that many of these problems share a common structure, and that a unified and informative treatment of a broad spectrum of risk-management tools is possible within a cost-minimisation framework, under minimal conditions on their objective functions. Fundamental results are derived that apply regardless of the producer's preference towards risks, using only the no-arbitrage condition that agricultural producers never forego any opportunity to lower costs without lowering returns.