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A/PROF LYLE REX MALCOLM



Contact Details

Organization: Agriculture and Food Systems
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
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Homepage: http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au/staff/malcolm.html
Work: 8344-5015
Fax: 8344-5037
Building: Institute Of Land And Food Resources
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Agricultural Economics University of New England 01-Mar-1973
Master of Agricultural Science University of Melbourne 01-Mar-1987
Docor of Agricultural Science University of Melbourne 01-Sep-1997

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
An investigation of financial management and decision making processes in dairy farming Chief Investigator DAIRY AUSTRALIA Postgraduate Awards 01/02/2001
VALIDATING AND INCREASING PROFIT FROM BULL SELECTION Chief Investigator DAIRY AUSTRALIA Out of session Project Grant 15/05/2006
FARM MANAGEMENT ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF RESULTS FROM THE ELLINB Chief Investigator DAIRY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION Project Grants
FUTURE FARMING SYSTEMS ORIGINAL PROJECT- MANAGER DNRE Chief Investigator DAIRY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION Project Grants

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
FUTURE FARM INDUSTRIES CRC PROGRAM LEADER Chief Investigator FUTURE FARM INDUSTRIES CRC LTD 01/10/2007

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Evaluation of options to modify irrigated dairy farm systems in northern Victoria in response to changes in irrigaion water availability and price
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture
    Volume: 47
    Page numbers: 1085-1094
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Risk and uncertainty in dairy production systems: Research concepts, tools and prospects
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Proceedings of the 3rd Dairy Science Symposium
    Conference Publication: Meeting the Challenges for Pasture-Based Dairying
    Page numbers: 476 - 491
    Publisher: National Dairy Alliance(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Investigating net benefits from alternative uses of resources
    Year: 2006
    Book: Economics and the Future
    Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing(Cheltenham)
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Journal Articles

  • Analysing decisions about conserving native pasture


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Extension Farming Systems Journal (Research Forum)
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 27-37
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  • A case study of changes in economic performance of an irrigated dairy farm in northern Victoria
    Year: 2006
    Journal: AFBM Journal - Farm Business & Farming Systems Management
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 11-20
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  • A survey of price risk management in the Australian cotton industry
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australasian Agribusiness Review
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: 1-25
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  • Case-study forty-year historical analysis of production and resource use on northern Victoria dairy farming
    Year: 2006
    Journal: AFBM Journal - Farm Business & Farming Systems Management
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 21-29
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  • Do Australian woolgrowers manage price risk rationally
    Year: 2006
    Journal: AFBM Journal - Farm Business & Farming Systems Management
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 26-32
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  • Dry enough for you? Farming, drought and policy in a dry country
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Farm Policy Journal
    Volume: August
    Page numbers: 23-33
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  • Growth in dairy farming
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Extension Farming Systems Journal (Research Forum)
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 39-64
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  • In memory of Jack Makeham: the pioneer of Farm Management in Australia
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Farm Policy Journal
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 57-62
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  • Public policy and managed investment schemes for hardwood plantations
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Extension Farming Systems Journal (Research Forum)
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 105-116
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  • The Role of Agribusiness Assets in Investment Portfolios
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australasian Agribusiness Review
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 1-35
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  • The net benefits from growing lucerne in the Broken Plains area of north-eastern Victoria
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Extension Farming Systems Journal (Research Forum)
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 77-80
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Future investment in landscape change
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 2006 international landcare conference
    Conference Publication: 2006 international landcare conference
    Page numbers: 1-11
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    URL - open access http://www.internationallandcareconference2006.com.au/
  • Why projections of China's feedgrain demand and supply differ: a review
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Emerging China: internal challenges and global implications
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 18th ACESA International Conference
    Page numbers: 1-26
    Publisher: Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University of Technology(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • The Farming Game 2nd Edition
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Philadelphia)
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Journal Articles

  • Analysing drought impacts and recovery options by adapting a dairy farming systems modelling approach
    Year: 2005
    Journal: AFBM Journal
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 11-16
    Publisher: AFBM Network
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  • Future dairy farming systems in irrigation regions
    Year: 2005
    Journal: AFBM Journal
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 59-68
    Publisher: AFBM Network
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  • Implilcations of changing a Friesian dairy system to a Friesian-Jersey crossbred dairy System
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Extension Farming Systems Journal (Research Forum)
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 37-44
    Publisher: AFBM Network
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Farm management analysis: a core discipline, simple sums, sophisticated thinking
    Year: 2004
    Journal: AFBM Journal
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 40-49
    Publisher: AFBM Network
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  • Impacts of changing water price and availability on irrigated dairy farms in northern Victoria
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Dairy Technology
    Volume: 59
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 161-163
    Publisher: Dairy Industry Association of Australia(Highett)
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  • Where's the economics? The core discipline of farm management has gone missing!
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
    Volume: 48
    Page numbers: 395-417
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Asia
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Economic evaluation of feeding grain to dairy cows in western Victoria
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 2004 Australian Farm Business Management Network Conference
    Conference Publication: 2004 Australian Farm Business Management Network Conference "Profit in an Uncertain Environmnet"
    Page numbers: 1-48
    Publisher: Australian Farm Business Management Network(Orange)
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  • Economics of extended lactations in dairying
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 2004 Australian Farm Business Management Network Conference
    Conference Publication: 2004 Australian Farm Business Management Network Conference
    Page numbers: 1-46
    Publisher: Australian Farm Business Management Network(Orange)
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  • Investing in phosphorus: using whole farm management economic methods to analyse investing in phosphorus for dairy farms
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 2004 Australian Farm Business Management Network Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 2004 Australian Farm Business Management Network Conference "Profit in an Uncertain Environment"
    Page numbers: 1 - 23
    Publisher: Australian Farm Business Management Network(Orange)
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  • Modelling feeding system efficiency and profitability of an irrigated dairy farm
    Year: 2004
    Event name: The New Realities25th Biennial Conference of the Australian Society of Animal Production
    Conference Publication: The New RealitiesProceedingsof the Australian Society of Animal Production 25th Biennial Conference, 2004
    Page numbers: 1 - 4
    Publisher: CSIRO ICT Centre(Canberra)
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  • Net benefits from liming acid soils
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 2004 Australian Farm Business Management Network Conference "Profit in an Uncertain Environment"
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 2004 Australian Farm Business Management Network Conference "Profit in an Uncertain Environment"
    Page numbers: 1 - 39
    Publisher: Australian Farm Business Management Network(Orange)
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Reports

  • Benefit cost study of increased Holstein-Friesian Jersey crossbread dairying in Victoria
    Year: 2004
    Customer: Victorian Department of Primary Industry
    Publisher: Department of Primary Industrie, Ellinbank Research Institute(Ellinbank)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Are we risking too much?
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Agricultural Economics
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 69-78
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