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Lauber S., Seidl I., Böni R., Herzog F.

Challenges for alpine pastures

Although the national research programme NRP48 “Landscapes and Habitats of the Alps” dealt intensively with the Swiss mountain area, rather less research had been devoted to the alpine pastures. Therefore, many open questions remained in this area.In a preliminary study, stakeholder interviews allowed identifying the standard of knowledge, current challenges for alpine pastures and open…
Agricultural economics

Gazzarin Ch., Lips M.

Milk Production: what characterises expanding farms?

La suppression des contingents laitiers en 2009 va entraîner un profond changement de la production laitière. Une enquête représentative a été réalisée en Suisse orientale afin d’étudier ce qui caractérise les exploitations ayant connu une forte croissance du contingent. Les résultats montrent qu’un lien positif existe entre la croissance connue dans le passé et l’intention…
Agricultural economics

Contzen S.

When income is no longer sufficient

Swiss farming families are under pressure as a result of developments in agriculture policies and the economy. For many of them, the income situation is unsatisfactory; some are even in precarious income situations. This article highlights the precarious situation of seven farming families. The reasons behind this precariousness are multi-layered and complex. Two basic patterns…
Agricultural economics

Schader C., Pfiffner L., Schlatter C., Stolze M.

Uptake of agri-environmental measures on organic and conventional farms in Switzerland

The willingness of farmers to adopt agri-environmental measures depends greatly on the farm type and management as well on the geographic conditions of the farm. The present paper analysed the differences in the uptake of agri-environmental measures between organic and non-organic farms. A statistical comparison based on the 2005 Swiss Farm Census showed that organic…
Agricultural economics

Mack G., Flury C.

Effect of summer pasturing payments

Summer pasturing payments are provided with the aim of ensuring the management and maintenance of summer grazing pastures. Calculations performed with the SILAS sector model show that these payments contribute decisively to transhumance, and hence to the management and maintenance of alpine pastures. Nevertheless, they cannot halt the trend of declining summer grazing of alpine…
Agricultural economics

Mann S.

What is land mobility all about?

Particularly farming groups often demand increased land mobility. This paper shows that increased land mobility can only be achieved under deteriorating agricultural policy conditions. As for the extent of land mobility, it is unimportant whether this process takes place via price reductions or decreased direct payments. It is possible, however, to in-crease land mobility via…
Agricultural economics

Moriz C., Lehmann B., Meier W.

Recording and Planning Farm-Management Tasks

Farm management tasks occupy a central position on farms. The data available in this area for planning purposes, however, corresponds neither quantitatively nor qualitatively to the importance of these tasks. Using the example of dairy farming, Reliable reliable planning datae are was developed using the example of dairy farmingfor these tasks. This study is based…
Agricultural economics

Sanders J., Stolze M., Offermann F.

The Swiss agricultural sector model CH-FARMIS

Future agricultural policy reforms will be a new challenge for Swiss agriculture. As a result of differences in competitiveness, it is expected that agriculture will be differently affected by a further agricultural liberalisation. In order to be able to conduct a highly differentiated policy impact analysis for specific groups of farms, the Research Institute of…
Agricultural economics

Krummenacher J., Maier B., Huber F., Weibel F.

Can agroforestry be economic? The analysis of a farm with longtime experience

In agriculture there is an increasing area of conflict between ecological and economical demands. An innovative approach that can fulfill requirements in a sustainable husbandry as well as in a competitive production is the agroforestry. On the basis of a case study conducted in Germany, we analysed how the profitability of an agroforestry system can…
Agricultural economics

Hug-Sutter M., Durgiai B., Schwarzenbach R.

Two major lines of impact for the milk value chain in mountainous regions

There have always been special requirements for agriculture in mountainous regions. Compared to plain areas an unequal evolution due to different potentials in production and changing demands of society can be observed. Traditionally dairy production was the most important sector of agriculture in most mountainous areas. As a result of environmental changes and the along…
Agricultural economics

Etter L., Schwarzenbach R.

Strategies for dairy manufacturing plants in Swiss mountainous areas

Clear and consequent implemented strategies for commercial dairy manufacturing plants in Swiss mountainous areas in a deregulated cheese market will become more important in the future. Due to demand trends of the market there are sound perspectives for the sale of premium quality and authentic cheese products. The plants participating in the mountain dairy project…
Agricultural economics

Durgiai B., Blättler T., Hug-Sutter M.

Strategies for dairy farms in mountain areas

In the dairy project in mountainous areas (�Mountain Milk�) ran by the Swiss College of Agriculture a farm-specific strategic planning process had been carried out with 49 dairy farms during four visits on each farm. The predicted results for a planning interval of ten years (2004 to 2013) are promising and motivating.The chosen strategies are…
Agricultural economics

Durgiai B., Blättler T., Etter L., Hug-Sutter M.

Strategic instruments for dairy farms and manufacturers

In the dairy project in mountainous areas (�Mountain Milk�) ran by the Swiss College of Agriculture family dairy farms and commercial dairy manufacturers had been coached with methods of action research .The clear objective of the project was defined in establishing a sustainable future for the participating families / manufacturers and their peers. Management instruments…
Agricultural economics

Hättenschwiler P., Flury C.

Agriculture`s contribution to food security

In addition to providing other multifunctional services, Swiss agriculture contributes to assuring that the population is supplied with foodstuffs. In the event of a crisis, supplies do not depend primarily on domestic production, but on the foodstuffs available in the mandatory stockpiles and the supply chain. However, the maintenance of production potential is essential for…
Agricultural economics

Pulfer I., Möhring A.

What are the facrors influencing the disbanding of a farming collective?

In January 2006, the Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART carried out a survey of all farming collectives (FCs) in Switzerland. The aim of the survey was to obtain findings on the organisation of the FCs, as well as on the satisfaction levels and communication and conflict-management strategies of the partners. In the present study, logistic…
Agricultural economics

Gerber D., Bühlmann G., Seelhofer N., Thürlemann P., Aebischer S., Berger T., Jakob E.

The Swiss Dairy Inspection and Advisory Service (DIAS) – a review of a ten year old pioneer work

For ten years until the extension of equivalence with EC legislation to all food products of animal origin, the Swiss Dairy Inspection and Advisory Service DIAS has delivered competent services to ensure that the requirements for export of the Swiss dairy sector were met with. DIAS has contributed to a high degree to attain high…
Agricultural economics

Huber R., Haller T., Weber M., Lehmann B.

Future societal demand for multifunctionality

Society’s demand for multifunctional benefits is the basis of direct payments in Swiss agricultural policy. However, societal demand changes over time. Therefore this explorative study tries to evaluate future demand for landscape benefits in different Swiss regions. The results of the expert survey show that demand can be differentiated into production-, recreation-, and ecological orientated…
Agricultural economics

Lips M., Eggimann H.

Do organic farms earn higher work incomes?

To analyse the influence of organic farming on work income per standard working day, multiple regressions are carried out for five different farm types with livestock production. The work incomes of organic farms of the «dairying”, «other cattle» and «combined pigs/poultry» types are approx. CHF 6 (5 to 7%) higher per day than those of…
Agricultural economics

Möhring A., Läpple D.

Investments of individual farms and farming collectives

Farms can only maintain and improve their competitiveness long-term through investment. This paper attempts to determine whether the investment behaviour of farms changes when whole farms or certain production branches merge. To this end, data on individual farms from the investment support measures of the Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG) and the cantonal credit…
Agricultural economics

Baur P., Müller P., Herzog F.

Lande-use of alpine pastures is changing

Alpine pastures are a distinctive feature of the cultural landscape of Switzerland. Available data indicate that land-use of Alpine pastures decreased during the 20th century. This becomes most evident looking at the spontaneous forest re-growth on marginal land in the Swiss mountains. The decrease in the number of livestock grazing on Alpine pastures has been…
Agricultural economics

Ferjani A., Mann S.

Effects of the abolition of export contributions on the apple juice concentrate market

This paper examines the effects of the abolition of export contributions for apple juice concentrate (AJC), scheduled for 2010, on the Swiss apple sector. A dynamic partial equilibrium model (SAPEM) was developed for this purpose. After the projection of the development of the markets for apples and derivative products until 2013 (reference scenario with export…

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