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The cooperative provision of ecosystem services in agriculture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Managing agricultural lands to provide ecosystem services (ES), such as natural pollination, may be essential for the long-term sustainability of agriculture. Most agricultural lands, however, are managed for the short-term ...
The effects of changing fertilizer production costs on U.S. agricultural markets : a partial equilibrium analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This and prior studies of the U.S. fertilizer industry have been motivated by possible environmental risks associated with the over-application of fertilizer and the uncertainty surrounding volatility in fertilizer prices. ...
Projecting corpland rental rate and asset values : using a hybrid of past approaches to harvest new estimates
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The net worth of farming operations has been boosted by increases in cropland values, but lower crop prices mean many are concerned that cropland prices could fall again. This thesis develops an economic model that can be ...
Three essays on the economic value of innovation and quality within the soybean supply chain
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Population growth and rise in personal income worldwide have led to a high rate of increase in global food demand. Efforts by global agricultural supply to meet this demand, however, is threatened by a decreasing number ...
Measuring entrepreneurial success in emerging wine regions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Studies in entrepreneurship have found that entrepreneurs' perspective of success is much different than that of multi-stakeholder firms'. The studies state that subjective non-economic performance measures are more important ...
Three essays on agricultural policy and food demand
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
To understand better the effect of policy and technology on agricultural markets, I study three topics about agricultural policy and food demand in this dissertation. My first essay identifies the worldwide historical ...
Program attributes that impact a farmer's willingness-to-accept participation in a high oleic soybean (hos) segregation program : a choice experiment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
HOS need to be segregated from commodity grain at the farm and through the rest of the food chain so that high oleic soybeans and oils do not get commingled with their bulk counterpart. Production on farm is typically ...
Cross-cutting knowledge organizations as leverages of entrepreneurial activity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Motivated by the possibility of obtaining relational rents (Dyer & Singh, 1998; Lavie, 2006), firms have used inter-firm networks as knowledge leverages. ...