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Adoption of pesticide-free wheat production in Switzerland (dataset)
(2020)The here presented dataset provides information on i) actual and planned participation decisions of Swiss «Extenso» wheat producers in a program for pesticide-free wheat production of the producer organization IP-SUISSE and ii) a wide range of potential determinants for program adoption. The dataset consists of survey data, as well as external data from a range of relevant data sources, matched based on farm location. The online survey ...Dataset -
Dataset on Farmer Risk Preferences in Europe
(2020)The here presented dataset presents data obtained in a systematic review of the research on farmer risk preference measurement across Europe published in the following article: Iyer, P. Bozzola, M.*, Hirsch, S., Meraner, M. and Finger, R. (2020). Measuring Farmer Risk Preferences in Europe: A Systematic Review. Journal of Agricultural Economics 71(1): 3-26 doi: 10.1111/1477-9552.12325 Our comprehensive review of the literature ...Dataset -
Data on late blight warnings in Swiss agricultural newspapers
(2019)The data set contains coded information on late blight warnings and pesticide application recommendations from 2009-2015 per canton. The raw data was collected from the archives of the agricultural newspapers BauernZeitung, Schweizer Bauer and AgriHebdo.Dataset -
Data: Forage quality and biomass yield of the Management Experiment set up within the Jena Experiment
(2019)This dataset contains measurements of above ground biomass yield and various forage quality variables of the subplots of the Management Experiment set up within the Main Experiment plots of a large grassland biodiversity experiment (the Jena Experiment; Roscher et al. 2004, Weigelt et al. 2009). In the main experiment, 82 grassland plots of 20 x 20 m were established from a pool of 60 species belonging to four functional groups (grasses, ...Dataset -
Data on grassland insurance schemes in Vroege et al. (2019)
(2019)Overview on reviewed grassland insurance products in Europe and North-America. Presented in the following paper: Vroege, W., Dalhaus, T., Finger, R. (2019). Index insurances for grasslands – A review for Europe and North-America. Agricultural Systems 168, 101-111 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2018.10.009Dataset -
Data on the efficacy and costs of different weed control strategies in Swiss wheat production
(2019)Data on the efficacy and costs of different weed control strategies in Swiss wheat production Authors: Thomas Böcker & Robert Finger, Agricultural Economics and Policy Group, ETH Zürich This content belongs to the following publication: Böcker, T., Möhring, N., Finger, R. (2019). Herbicide free agriculture? A bio-economic modelling application to Swiss wheat production. Agricultural Systems 173, 378-392. The model used in this paper ...Dataset -
Dataset: Feed price and SPEI data of South Germany and whole Germany
(2019)We provide here data on 1) monthly hay, feed wheat and feed barley prices in South Germany (=Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg) from August 2002 to March 2019 and 2) monthly Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) values for South Germany and in whole Germany from January 1991 to April 2019. For more details, see Schaub and Finger (2020) and the README file. To replicate the results of Schaub and Finger (2020) we additionally ...Dataset -
Dataset on the dairy processing industry in France, Italy, Poland and Spain
(2019)Dataset on revenues, costs, assets and other firm characteristics of firms in the dairy processing industry in France, Italy, Poland and Spain. balanced panel data for the period 2006–2014 leading is provided for a sample of 2,186 dairy processors. The data is based on accounting data of dairy processors provided by AMADEUS, a trans-European database of financial information provided by Bureau van Dijk. The dataset is used in the following ...Dataset -
Drosophila suzukii in Swiss plum production – Data from a survey on risk management strategies in 2017
(2018)The here presented dataset is based on a survey that was conducted with Swiss plum growers with the specific aim to identify risk management strategies taken in response to Drosophila suzukii as well as to survey perceived infestation levels and harvest losses. The survey was conducted from mid-November 2017 to mid-January 2018 and questions were related to the plum harvest of 2017 with in total 74 responses. Farm and farmers’ characteristics ...Dataset -
Drosophila suzukii in Swiss grape production- Data from a survey on risk management strategies in 2016
(2018)The here presented dataset is based on a survey that was conducted with Swiss grape growers with the specific aim to identify risk management strategies taken in response to Drosophila suzukii as well as to survey perceived infestation levels and harvest losses. The survey was conducted from end of January to end of February 2017 and questions were related to the grape harvest of 2016 with in total 372 responses. Farm and farmers’ ...Dataset