Alfons Weersink

University of Guelph
Faculty Member, Economics
Canada

My co-authors include

Dr Calum G Turvey

My Publications

Asymmetric spot-futures price adjustments in grain markets

Journal of Futures Markets
October 2018

The Growing Heterogeneity in the Farm Sector and Its Implications*

Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie
December 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