Agricultural Economics, 2019 (vol. 65), issue 11

Who spends the most money at farmers' markets?Original Paper

Ladislav Pilař, Lucie Kvasničková Stanislavská, Pavel Moulis, Roman Kvasnička, Stanislav Rojík, Ivana Tichá

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2019, 65(11):491-498 | DOI: 10.17221/69/2019-AGRICECON  

Farmers' markets have been booming in recent years and are becoming an important alternative food network. They enable farmers to sell their products directly to customers and thus shorten the supply chain. Market organisers must meet the needs of both consumers and vendors by ensuring customer satisfaction while maintaining profitability for vendors. The present study identified four basic segments at farmers' markets, as follows: (1) product-oriented customers; (2) personal social responsibility-oriented customers; (3) entertainment and emotional-oriented customers; (4) alternative food-oriented customers....

Evaluation of economic indicators for Czech dairy farmsOriginal Paper

Jan Syrůček, Luděk Bartoň, Dalibor Řehák, Jindřich Kvapilík, Jiří Burdych

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2019, 65(11):499-508 | DOI: 10.17221/136/2019-AGRICECON  

Milk production is one of the most important areas of the Czech agrarian sector, as evidenced by its 50% share (at 2017 prices) in revenues from livestock production. As for any business, a certain level of profitability is a prerequisite for long-term and sustainable development of dairy farms. This study's aim was to evaluate the economic efficiency of milk production from both Czech Fleckvieh (C) and Holstein (H) cows based on data collected each year from 48 to 70 Czech dairy farms in the period from 2012 to 2017. Total costs per feeding day and litre of milk, level of profitability, and income over feed...

A gravity approach of agricultural trade: The nexus of the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific countriesOriginal Paper

Jeremiás Máté Balogh, Nuno Carlos Leitão

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2019, 65(11):509-519 | DOI: 10.17221/131/2019-AGRICECON  

The European Union (EU) is one of the biggest traders of agricultural products. In 2017, extra-EU agricultural trade accounted for 7.4% of the total EU international trade. Furthermore, Europe is the main destination for agricultural goods arriving from African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) trading partners. The paper analyses the effect of geographical proximity, cultural similarity, free trade agreements on bilateral agricultural trade as well as intra-industry trade between EU member states and its trading partners (intra and extra EU trade), employing gravity model for a period of 1996-2017. Regression results suggest that EU countries export more...

Crowding out of private stocks by public stocksOriginal Paper

Sanghyo Kim, Carl Zulauf

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2019, 65(11):520-528 | DOI: 10.17221/34/2019-AGRICECON  

Public stocks held by government have emerged as a food security issue as well as an issue in the Doha Round of World Trade Organization talks. Understanding the impact of public stocks requires understanding their crowding out effect on private stocks. A conceptual model of this crowding out effect is developed. It utilises a call option associated with the release of public stocks. The model reveals that the crowding out effect on private stocks decreases as public stocks increase, in contrast to constant marginal crowding out reported by earlier studies. Crowding out of private stocks is also a function of...

Economic impacts of farmland degradation in the Czech Republic - Case studyCase Study

Jana Podhrazska, Jan Szturc, Petr Karasek, Josef Kucera, Jana Konecna

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2019, 65(11):529-538 | DOI: 10.17221/89/2019-AGRICECON  

To analyse the potential changes in soil characteristics and associated impacts on the land price, the region of South Moravia was selected, strongly threatened by erosion and by claiming the most valuable land in suburban territories due to industrial and housing expansion. For the detailed analysis of the impacts of erosion and land appropriation in the region of South Moravia, the model territories of Brno surroundings with the municipality of Dolní Heršpice and Hustopeče surroundings with the municipality of Starovice were selected. The price of land degraded by potential erosion in the South Moravian region...