Farm/Household-Level Simulation: Results of Testing Policy and Other Scenarios. Factor Markets Working Document No. 54, June 2013

Among the different production factors, land is the one that most often limits farm development and one of the most studied. The connection between policy and other context variables and land markets is at the core of the policy debate, including the present reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. The proposal of the latter has been published in October 2011 and in Italy it will include the switch of the payment regime from an historical to a regional basis. The authors’ objective is to simulate the impact of the proposed policy reform on the land market, particularly on land values and propensity to transaction. They combine insights and data from a farm household investment model revised and extended in order to simulate the demand curve for land in different policy scenarios and a survey of farmers stated intention carried out in the province of Bologna (Italy) in 2012. Based on these results, the authors calibrate a mathematical programming model of land market exchanges for the province of Bologna and use this model form simulation. The results of the model largely corroborate the results from the survey and both hint at a relevant reaction of the land demand and supply to the shift from the historical to the regionalised payments. As effect, the regionalisation would result in increased rental prices and in a tendency to the re-allocation of land.

Maps (pdf) and raster images (tif) of predicted rural land cover suitability under current (2010) conditions and future climate scenarios

This study projects land cover probabilities under climate change for corn (maize), soybeans, spring and winter wheat, winter wheat-soybean double cropping, cotton, grassland and forest across 16 central U.S. states at a high spatial resolution, while also taking into account the influence of soil characteristics and topography. The scenarios span three oceanic-atmospheric global circulation models, three Representative Concentration Pathways, and three time periods (2040, 2070, 2100). As climate change intensifies, the suitable area for all six crops display large northward shifts. Total suitable area for spring wheat, followed by corn and soybeans, diminish. Suitable area for winter wheat and for winter wheat-soybean double-cropping expand northward, while cotton suitability migrates to new, more northerly, locations. Suitability for forest intensifies in the south while yielding to crops in the north; grassland intensifies in the western Great Plains as crop suitability diminishes. To maintain current broad geographic patterns of land use, large changes in the thermal response of crops such as corn would be required. A transition from corn-soybean to winter wheat-soybean doubling cropping is an alternative adaptation.

The law relating to the duties on land values and mineral rights and to the valuation of the same , being part I of the Finance (1909-1910) act, 1910, with the incorporated enactments, full explanatory notes and a practical introduction

Half-title: Konstam's law of land values.

Proceedings of the ... annual convention of the Land-grant college engineering association.

Mode of access: Internet.

Governor and judges journal; proceedings of the Land board of Detroit;

Introduction.--Journal of the proceedings of the governor and judges of Michigan, acting as commissioners under an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for the adjustment of titles of land in the town of Detroit and territory of Michigan ..." [Oct. 24, 1808-Feb. 5, 1821]--Appendix: Notes.--[Documents] copied from original papers in the City hall, Detroit [1806-1835]--Index.

The labourer's friend : a selection from the publications of the Labourers' friend society, showing the utility and national advantage of allotting land for cottage husbandry.

Tables.

Land management systems : BLM faces risks in completing the Automated Land and Mineral Record System : report to the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member, Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives /

"B-271929"--P. 1.

Land management systems : status of BLM's actions to improve information technology management : report to the Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives /

"B-284472"--P. 3.

Final environmental impact statement on Public Service Company of New Mexico's proposed New Mexico generating station and other possible end uses of the Ute Mountain land exchange.

On cover: BLM NM-83-005-5000.

Land nationalisation, its necessity and its aims : being a comparison of the system of landlord and tenant with that of occupying ownership in their influence on the well-being of the people /

"First ed. ... 1892; second ed. ... 1896; third ed. ... 1902; fourth ed. ... 1906."

A benefit-cost system of decision making for strip mined land reclamation in Illinois /

Bibliography: p. 296-297.

A statistical approach to evaluate the relation of coal mining, land reclamation, and surface-water quality in Ohio /

Chiefly tables.

The poor man's best friend, or, Land to cultivate for his own benefit : being the results of twenty-four years' experience : in a letter to the Marquess of Salisbury, as given in evidence before the House of Lords' Committee on the Poor Laws /

Mode of access: Internet.

Biennial report of the State Land Department of the State of Idaho.

Title varies slightly.

Engineering experiment station record, summary; a summary of engineering research at the land-grant colleges and universities, 1929.

Mode of access: Internet.