Browsing by Author "Pierce, Timothy"

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    Animal Welfare Standards and Marketing
    Jacobs, Leonie; Bovay, John; Pierce, Timothy (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2021)
    This handout provides an overview of animal welfare economics and the benefits to farmers from marketing their commitments to animal welfare.
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    GMO, Bioengineered Labeling, and Non-GMO Food
    Pierce, Timothy; Bovay, John (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2021)
    The acronym GMO stands for Genetically Modified Organisms. Terms with similar meanings include: Genetically Engineered (GE), Genetically Modified (GM), Transgenic, Biotech, Bioengineered, or Products Made with Modern Biotechnology. This factsheet, which accompanies a webinar on “Non-GMO, GMO, and bioengineered food labeling”, provides an overview of the definitions of these labels in the United States. The webinar and factsheet are part of the Virginia Sustainable Farms and Agribusiness Education Initiative offered by Virginia Tech’s Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and Virginia Cooperative Extension. More information about the program is available at https://aaec.vt.edu/extension/va-sustainable-farms-agribusinesses.html. More information about GMOs can be found at websites created by Purdue University (2016) and the University of Connecticut (2017), and other references listed at the end of this factsheet.
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    On-Farm Energy Management and Renewable Energy
    Pierce, Timothy; Bovay, John; Ignosh, John (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2022)
    This handout, which accompanies a webinar on “Wind, solar, and geothermal energy production on farms”, provides an overview of considerations farms should make when thinking about energy investments. The webinar and handout are part of the Virginia Sustainable Farms and Agribusiness Education Initiative offered by Virginia Tech’s Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and Virginia Cooperative Extension. More information about the program is available at https://aaec.vt.edu/extension/va-sustainable-farms-agribusinesses.html. The webinar is available at: https://video.vt.edu/media/1_ros06lae.
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    Risk Management and Crop Insurance
    Pierce, Timothy; Bovay, John (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2021)
    The federal crop insurance program is managed by the USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA). The crop insurance program helps to protect producers against low-revenue years. The availability of policy varies by crop/species, by county, and by year. The chart on the next page shows crop insurance policy availability for Virginia for 2021. Crop insurance can be purchased through an RMA Approved Insurance Provider (AIP). The federal crop insurance program is supplemented by the Price Loss Coverage (PLC) program and the Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) program. These programs are available to producers of wheat, oats, barley, corn, grain sorghum, rice, soybeans, sunflower seed, rapeseed, canola, safflower, flaxseed, mustard seed, crambe and sesame seed, seed cotton, dry peas, lentils, small chickpeas, large chickpeas, and peanuts. Producers can opt into one of the two programs if they participate in conservation programs.