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Diversified crop-livestock farms are risk-efficient in the face of price and production variability

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  • Bell, L.W.
  • Moore, A.D.
  • Thomas, D.T.

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Mixed crop-livestock farms are important production systems worldwide and dominate Australia's broadacre agricultural regions. While integration of crops and livestock can offer many benefits, these are often intertwined and are hard to quantify explicitly.

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  • Bell, L.W. & Moore, A.D. & Thomas, D.T., 2021. "Diversified crop-livestock farms are risk-efficient in the face of price and production variability," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 189(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:agisys:v:189:y:2021:i:c:s0308521x21000032
    DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103050
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