Alfons Weersink
University of Guelph
Faculty Member, Economics
Canada
My co-authors include
Predrag Rajsic
Dr Calum G Turvey
Nicoleta Uzea
My Publications
Estimating milk loss based on somatic cell count at the cow and herd level
Journal of Dairy Science
April 2021
Economic thoughts on the potential implications of COVID‐19 on the Canadian dairy and p...
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
April 2020
Assessing the Value of Antibiotics on Farms: Modeling the Impact of Antibiotics and Vac...
Frontiers in Veterinary Science
October 2019
A Risk Management Tool or an Investment Strategy? Understanding the Unstable Farm Insur...
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
September 2019
Improving farm profitability also reduces the carbon footprint of milk production in in...
Journal of Cleaner Production
August 2019
How flat is flat? Measuring payoff functions and the implications for site-specific cro...
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
July 2019
Adoption of precision agriculture technologies in Ontario crop production
Canadian Journal of Plant Science
December 2018
Asymmetric spot-futures price adjustments in grain markets
Journal of Futures Markets
October 2018
Opportunities and Challenges for Big Data in Agricultural and Environmental Analysis
Annual Review of Resource Economics
October 2018
The Growing Heterogeneity in the Farm Sector and Its Implications*
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
December 2017
The Canadian Craft Beer Sector
December 2017
EFFECT OF FUEL PRICES ON COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF HEATING SYSTEMS FOR BROILER POULTRY BARNS
Energy Studies Review
September 2017
Actual versus environmentally recommended fertilizer application rates: Implications fo...
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
March 2017
Determinants of the Productivity of Teff in Ethiopia
European Journal of Development Research
December 2016
The Impact of Local Ethanol Production on the Corn Basis in Ontario
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
December 2016
Effects of supply chain structure and biomass prices on bioenergy feedstock supply
Applied Energy
December 2016
An Economic Evaluation of Intervention Strategies for Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED)
Preventive Veterinary Medicine
September 2016
Farm share of the food dollar: an IO approach for the United States and Canada
Agricultural Economics
July 2016
Economics of genomic selection: the role of prediction accuracy and relative genotyping...
Euphytica
May 2016
Do Landlord-Tenant Relationships Influence Rental Contracts for Farmland or the Cash Re...
Land Economics
October 2015
An economic analysis of seed source options under a changing climate for black spruce a...
Canadian Journal of Forest Research
October 2015
Optimizing ration formulation as a strategy for greenhouse gas mitigation in intensive ...
Agricultural Systems
July 2015
Empirical analysis of corn and soybean basis in Canada
Applied Economics
June 2015
Financial Cost Comparison of Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) and BioABS
Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy
April 2015
The development of universal response functions to facilitate climate-smart regeneratio...
Forest Ecology and Management
March 2015
Using economics to support emerald ash borer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) detection strate...
The Canadian Entomologist
February 2015
Should climate change make us think more about the economics of forest management?
The Forestry Chronicle
January 2015
Decomposing the Farmer's Share of the Food Dollar
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
November 2014
Farm Support Payments and Risk Balancing
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
July 2014
Enhancing the adoption of short rotation woody crops for bioenergy production
Biomass and Bioenergy
May 2014
Evaluating critical factors to the economic feasibility of semi-intensive pig rearing i...
Tropical Animal Health and Production
March 2014
The Role of Cultivated Land Expansion on the Impacts to Global Agricultural Markets fro...
Energy Procedia
January 2014
Growing Forward with Agricultural Policy: Strengths and Weaknesses of Canada's Agricult...
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
September 2013
A Real Options Approach for the Investment Decisions of a Farm-Based Anaerobic Digester
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
September 2013
Estimating sustainable crop residue removal rates and costs based on soil organic matte...
Biomass and Bioenergy
September 2013
Challenges and policy options in the global bio-economy: introduction and overview
Agricultural Economics
June 2013
A spatial model of climate change effects on yields and break-even prices of switchgras...
GCB Bioenergy
May 2013
An economic and functional tool for assessing the financial feasibility of farm-based a...
Renewable Energy
March 2013
Impact of land classification on potential warm season grass biomass production in Onta...
Canadian Journal of Plant Science
March 2013
Global biofuel production and poverty in China
Applied Energy
October 2012
Biofuels and the poor: Global impact pathways of biofuels on agricultural markets
Food Policy
August 2012
Characteristics of Honey Bee and Non-<I>Apis</I> Bee (Hymenoptera) Farms in Canada
Journal of Economic Entomology
August 2012
Impact of Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles (DDGS) on Ration and Fertilizer Costs o...
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
January 2012
Factors affecting variability in farm and off‐farm income
Agricultural Finance Review
November 2011
Factors Affecting the Adoption of Environmental Management Systems by Crop and Livestoc...
Sri Lankan Journal of Agricultural Economics
August 2011
Net Agricultural Greenhouse Gases
June 2011
Optimal site-specific fertilization and harvesting strategies with respect to crop yiel...
Agricultural Systems
September 2010
Ranking of Research Output of Agricultural Economics Departments in Canada and Selected...
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
May 2010
Ecological Goals and Wetland Preservation Choice
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
March 2010
Acreage Response to Weather, Yield, and Price
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
March 2010
Crop yield response to economic, site and climatic variables
Climatic Change
November 2009
From Plantations to Smallholder Production: The Role of Policy in the Reorganization of...
World Development
November 2009
Risk and Nitrogen Application Levels
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
June 2009
Carbon banks: An efficient means to exchange sequestered carbon
Journal of Environmental Quality
February 2009
Distributional Impacts of Water Allocation Policies for an Agricultural Watershed
Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques
January 2009
Off-farm labour decision of Canadian farm operators: Urbanization effects and rural lab...
Journal of Rural Studies
January 2009
Decomposition Measures of Technical Efficiency for Ontario Dairy Farms
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
November 2008
More reasons why farmers have so little interest in futures markets
Agricultural Economics
July 2008
Economic and environmental impacts of introducing land use policies and rotations on Pr...
Land Use Policy
July 2008
Do farmers waste fertilizer? A comparison of ex post optimal nitrogen rates and ex ante...
Agricultural Systems
April 2008
Modeling Exit and Entry of Farmers in a Crop Insurance Program
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
April 2008
Skating on thin ice: rule changes and team strategies in the NHL
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économique
May 2007
Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture: EU and US Perspectives La séquestration du carbone...
EuroChoices
April 2007
Peasants and plantations in the Sri Lankan tea sector: causes of the change in their re...
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
March 2007
Environmental regulations impact on agricultural spills and citizen complaints
Ecological Economics
January 2007
Effect of urbanisation on the adoption of environmental management systems in Canadian ...
International Journal of Agricultural Resources Governance and Ecology
January 2007
Cost efficient rotation and tillage options to sequester carbon and mitigate GHG emissi...
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
November 2006
Pricing Weather Insurance with a Random Strike Price: The Ontario Ice-Wine Harvest
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
August 2006
The Siting of Livestock Facilities and Environmental Regulations
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
March 2006
Agricultural Economics in Canada: Ready to Step Up or Fall Back?
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
March 2006
Carbon Banks
Journal of Environmental Quality
January 2006
Institutional and organizational change: biosphere greenhouse gas management in Canadia...
January 2006
Impact of Tillage and Rotation on Yield and Economic Performance in Corn-Based Cropping...
Agronomy Journal
January 2006
Agriculture's Likely Role in Meeting Canada's Kyoto Commitments*
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
December 2005
The Potential Contribution of the Agriculture and Forestry Sectors to Greenhouse Gas Ma...
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
December 2005
Economics of pre-emptive management to avoid weed resistance to glyphosate in Australia
Crop Protection
July 2005
Spatial and Temporal Changes in the U.S. Hog, Dairy, and Fed-Cattle Sectors, 1975-2000
Review of Agricultural Economics
March 2005
Measuring Financial Capacity and the Effects of Regulatory Changes on Small Water Syste...
Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques
January 2005
Lessons from agri-environmental policies in other countries for dealing with salinity i...
Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture
January 2005
Panel Estimates of the Canadian Rural/Urban Women's Wage Gap
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
November 2004
Farm Return and Land Price Effects from Environmental Standards and Stocking Density Re...
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
October 2004
Cost-effective Targeting of Riparian Buffers
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
March 2004
Short-term employment transitions of the Canadian labour force: rural-urban differences...
Agricultural Economics
March 2004
Short-term employment transitions of the Canadian labour force: rural–urban differences...
Agricultural Economics
March 2004
Earnings Mobility of Rural versus Urban Workers in Canada
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
July 2003
Rolling the dice: on-farm benefits of research into reducing pesticide use
Agricultural Systems
May 2003
Economic-Environmental Tradeoffs in Swine Finishing Operations
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
March 2003
The Value of Dairy Quota under a Commercial Export Milk Program
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
March 2003
The Economics of Controlling Infectious Diseases on Dairy Farms
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
November 2002
Policy options to account for the environmental costs and benefits of agriculture
Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology
September 2002
Direct production losses and treatment costs from bovine viral diarrhoea virus, bovine ...
Preventive Veterinary Medicine
September 2002
Management factors related to seroprevalences to bovine viral-diarrhoea virus, bovine-l...
Preventive Veterinary Medicine
September 2002
Livestock manure systems for swine finishing enterprises
Agricultural Systems
September 2002
Female Participation and Labor Market Attachment in Rural Canada
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
February 2002
Farm-Level Modeling for Bigger Issues
Review of Agricultural Economics
January 2002
An economic evaluation of the environmental benefits from pesticide reduction
Agricultural Economics
September 2001
An economic evaluation of the environmental benefits from pesticide reduction
Agricultural Economics
September 2001
Farmer emigration: the case of Dutch dairy farmers moving to Ontario
Livestock Production Science
June 2001
Agriculture and ISO 14000
Food Policy
February 2001
Income Risk Analysis of Alternative Tillage Systems for Corn and Soybean Production on ...
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
July 2000
Farm-level profitability analysis of alternative tillage systems on clay soils
Canadian Journal of Plant Science
January 2000
An Economic Evaluation of Food Systems 2002: A Program to Reduce Pesticide Use by 50% i...
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
December 1999
Economic Feasibility of Variable-Rate Technology for Nitrogen on Corn
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
November 1999
The Effect of Agricultural Policy on Farmland Values
Land Economics
August 1999
Environmental and Resource Economics
January 1999
Economic Instruments and Environmental Policy in Agriculture
Canadian Public Policy
September 1998
What Does It Take for a Market to Function?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
September 1998
Crop Price and Risk Effects on Farm Abatement Costs
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
July 1998
Management unit size and efficiency gains from nitrogen fertilizer application
Agricultural Systems
April 1998
Multiple job holdings among dairy farm families in New York and Ontario
Agricultural Economics
March 1998
Economic aspects of persistency of lactation in dairy cattle
Livestock Production Science
March 1998
A review and evaluation of agroecosystem health analysis: The role of economics
Agricultural Systems
December 1997
Marketing reforms, market development and agricultural production in China
Agricultural Economics
December 1997
Credit Risk and the Demand for Agricultural Loans
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
November 1997
Impact of Alternative Farm Management Practices on Nitrogen Pollution of Groundwater: E...
Journal of Environmental Quality
January 1997
The Use of Economic Instruments to Resolve Water Quality Problems from Agriculture
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
December 1996
Semiparametric Estimation of Stochastic Production Frontier Models
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
October 1996
Semiparametric Estimation of Stochastic Production Frontier Models
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
October 1996
A Comparison of Financial Returns During Early Transition from Conventional to Organic ...
Journal of Vegetable Crop Production
May 1996
Comparative Evaluation of Farm Inputs and Services Networks in New York and Ontario
Journal of International Food & Agribusiness Marketing
January 1996
Damage Control and Increasing Returns
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
February 1995
Risk Efficient Choice of Bean-Winter Wheat Rotation, Cover Crop, and Tillage System on ...
jpa
January 1994
Economics of Structural Change in Agriculture
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
December 1993
Economie analysis of alternative cropping systems for a bean/wheat rotation on light-te...
Canadian Journal of Plant Science
April 1993
Acreage Response to Government Stabilization Programs in Ontario
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
March 1993
Weed Control Decision Rules under Uncertainty
Review of Agricultural Economics
January 1993
Ontario Bulk Milk Somatic Cell Count Reduction Program. 1. Impact on Somatic Cell Count...
Journal of Dairy Science
December 1992
Ontario Bulk Milk Somatic Cell Count Reduction Program. 2. Dynamics of Bulk Milk Somati...
Journal of Dairy Science
December 1992
Off-farm Labor Decisions by Ontario Swine Producers
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
July 1992
Economic Comparison of Alternative Tillage Systems under Risk.
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
July 1992
Dynamics of Structural Change in the Ontario Hog Industry
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
March 1992
Evaluation of Alternative Decision Rules for Postemergent Herbicide Treatments in Soybean
jpa
January 1992
Defining and Measuring Economic Threshold Levels
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
December 1991
Economic Costs of Environmental Quality Constraints
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
December 1991
Sire Selection Decisions and Farm Profitability Relationships for Ontario Dairy Fanners
Journal of Dairy Science
November 1991
Causality between Dairy Farm Size and Productivity
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
November 1991
A Risk Analysis of the Ontario White Bean Sector
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
July 1991
The Impact of Support Programs on Crop Area Response
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
December 1990
Decomposition Measures of Technical Efficiency for Ontario Dairy Farms
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
December 1990
Risk Analysis in the Ontario White Bean Sector
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
December 1990
Regional and Temporal Impacts of Technical Change in the U.S. Dairy Sector
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
November 1990
Comparative Analysis of Investment Models for New York Dairy Farms
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
February 1989
Skating on Thin Ice: Rule Changes and Team Strategies in the NHL
SSRN Electronic Journal