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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 production of food, fiber...
Shaping pedagogical content knowledge for experienced agriculture teachers in the plant sciences : a grounded theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The purpose of this grounded theory study was to conceptualize the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of experienced agriculture teachers in the plant sciences. The overarching theme that emerged was the influence of beliefs on participants' PCK...
Agriculture during the Reagan years
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
of the Ronald Reagan Presidedential Library to provide insight into the conflict between the administration and Congress over the method to ameliorate the economic crisis in agriculture. The study concludes that while the administration tried to extract...
The effects of changing fertilizer production costs on U.S. agricultural markets : a partial equilibrium analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
and demand framework of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium fertilizer markets and linking it to an existing U.S. agriculture model system in order to quantify and examine the impacts of fertilizer production cost changes on crop prices and other key...
Agricultural science teachers and the concern for arc welding shop ventilation safety
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Agricultural science teachers spend a lot of time exposed to welding fumes while supervising students' are welding fabrication time. There are already some schools with updated...
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 of agriculture workers across...
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 pattern of wheat support...
Cover crop practices in Missouri claypan soils and their influences on selected soil health indicators
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Growing world human populations and diversified global markets have increased demand for agricultural food products, as well as non-food agricultural industry products. To meet these expected future demands, increasing and maintaining soil...
Rapid processing of municipal and agricultural waste streams in supercritical water for energy generation and nutrient recovery
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] A factorial experiment was designed and conducted to explore the effect of four variables, concentration, pressure, excess oxygen, and inlet temperature, ...
Assessing the Impact of Changing Climate on Agriculture in Missouri and the use of Crop Insurance as Adaptation Strategy (1980-2010)
(2015)
Climate change and climate variability affect all sectors of the environment, but agriculture is the most impacted because food production is highly sensitive to weather. The impact of changing climate is evident in the increase in extreme events...
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 ...
Modes of reflexivity in community supported agriculture : the case of the people's republic of delicious foods
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
As food has become unknowable, untrustworthy, and deleterious to all involved, people have responded with alternatives to the industrial agrifood system. One method in particular is Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in which shares of a farming...
Land inheritance and gender : social factors affecting land inherited in rural Bangladesh
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This thesis examines what affects whether men and women in rural Bangladesh inherit land and, if they do inherit land, what affects the amount of land inherited. The data is collected from Matlab, Bangladesh, a small-scale agricultural society...
Exploring tensions, identities, and equitable science assessment practices in undergraduate agroecology education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
separate research manuscripts that examined the challenges and affordances of designing and enacting curriculum and assessment practices in an upper-level agroecology course titled, Advanced Practices of Sustainable Agriculture. All three studies integrate...
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 ...
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 ...
The Production of Space, Place, and Food: The Ecology of Money and the Emergence of Transformative Circuits of Money Capital
(2015-08-04)
This dissertation argues that Henri Lefebvre’s (1991) The Production of Space
expresses a theoretical blueprint for the construction of an interdisciplinary approach to
social science that integrates political economy, ...
The long-term impacts of forest removal on floodplain subsurface hydrology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
and piezometers equipped with pressure transducers to monitor shallow groundwater (SGW) temperature and level were installed in a gridded study design within a historic agricultural field (Ag) and a remnant bottomland hardwood forest (BHF). Groundwater...
Agro-pastoral Landuse Transformation: Implications and Perspectives in the Northwest Region of Cameroon
(2015-08-11)
This dissertation centers on the human-environmental problem of agro-pastoral
landuse transformation in Northwest Cameroon, identifying population pressure, climate
change, environmental degradation, land grabbing, change ...
Application of real-time PCR for detection of antibiotic resistant pathogens and Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
States Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) declared seven STEC serogroups O157, O26, O45, O103, O111, O121 and O145 as adulterants in ground beef and beef trims. Multiplex real-time PCR melt curve assays with IAC were...