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Dataset on German farmers risk preference, risk perception and risk management strategies
(2017)The extent to which people are willing to take on risk, i.e. their risk preferences as well as subjective risk perception plays a major role in explaining their behavior. This is of particular relevance in agricultural production, which is inherently risky. The data presented here was collected amongst a total of 64 German farmers in 2015. It includes results of three different risk preference elicitation methods (multiple price list, ...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 local hail risk in Switzerland
(2012)This dataset contains information on local hail risk in Switzerland, on the level of municipalities, aggregated over the period 1961–2004. Data is provided by the Swiss hail insurance and is defined as the number of years with insured hail damages for each municipality in the period 1961–2004. The data was further described and used in this paper: Finger, R., Lehmann, N. (2012). The Influence of Direct Payments on Farmers' Hail Insurance ...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 pesticide use and risk from Boecker and Finger 2016
(2016)The here provided data allow to replicate the 3 figures in the following paper: Böcker, T., Finger, R. (2016). European Pesticide Tax Schemes in Comparison: An Analysis of Experiences and Developments. Sustainability 8(4), 378; doi: 10.3390/su8040378 The data contain information on pesticide use and pesticide risks in selected European countries.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 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 -
Drosophila suzukii in Swiss plum production – Data from a survey on risk management strategies in 2016
(2017)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 February to mid-March 2017 and questions were related to the plum harvest of 2016 with in total 112 responses. Farm and farmers’ characteristics were ...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