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Adoption of nutrient management practices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
-farm income on adoption of conservation practices. The contribution of the current study is to provide a conceptual model which shows that off-farm work has positive impact on adoption of capital incentive practices and negative impact on adoption labor...
A simultaneous equation analysis of selected terminal hog markets
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1971)
and institutions and practices become virtually a proxy for a larger body... In livestock marketing, there must be a central value determining mechanism if we are to have an exchange system. Total decentralization is bedlam and unworkable. Even as central markets...
Policy and program incentives and the adoption of agroforestry in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
More landowners in the USA are concerned about management of their lands and natural resources in light of the negative effects of many agricultural practices on the environment. Land conservation program incentives, which include agroforestry, were...
Three essays on the Conservation Reserve Program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Over 35 years, the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) has provided a variety of envi-ronmental benefits, reducing run-off of sediment, nitrogen, ...
Indexes of the influence of weather on corn yields in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1964)
weather-technology interaction. Some evidence was presented to support the belief that average experimental plot yields vary sore than mean yields for larger producing areas. Using actual yield deviations from the trend in plot data, as Stallings suggested...
Non-operator and farm operator landowner interest in agroforestry in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Farmers are increasingly conflicted between maintaining the integrity of the land and trying to succeed in a competitive market place. Agroforestry may offer opportunities, but awareness of the various practices is very limited, and little is known...
Nudging meat eaters towards plant-based meat alternatives : an online supermarket experiment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
We implement a non-hypothetical online grocery shopping experiment to study the impact of health and environment related information nudges on consumers' purchases of meat and plant-based meat alternatives. More specifically, we exogenously...
Estimation of demand parameters : an empirical analysis of consumer behavior in the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1971)
models for forecasting future markets, planning merchandising and advertising, and devising promotional programs can be improved with demand analysis. Traditionally, most of the estimates of demand parameters in empirical analysis were based on single...
Effects of partially decoupled payments on production decisions and their relation to farmers' demographics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This thesis examines how farmers' production decisions are affected by policy scenarios involving a base acreage update, an increase in Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) payments, and an increase in market receipts...
The impact analysis of structural change in Korean agriculture with respect to the Korean-United States free trade agreement : dynamic simultaneous equation model approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
, input cost price indices, an agricultural total value module, and an agricultural population module. The model includes 2,019 equations and formulas and uses 2,435 variables. It covers 95 percent of the Korean agricultural sector based on 2007...
Social indicators of efficiency and equity convergence in four distressed regions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
indicators can be used to monitor and guide practical policy actions....
Phytase : anatomy of an invisible win-win technology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Phytase is an enzyme that frees the phosphorous and other nutrients bound in phytate so they can be digested by non-ruminant animals. Phytase has the potential to decrease the cost of feed and decrease the phosphorous in ...
Analysis of the economic value associated with the adoption of beef reproductive technologies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Beef cattle herd improvement to meet growing demand for higher quality beef has been an aspiration within the cattle industry since inception. Throughout the heartland, progressive cow-calf producers invest and adopt research-proven practices...
The ecology of organizational forms in local and regional food systems: exploring the scaling-up challenge via a species concept
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Over the past 30 years, Western nations have developed alternative systems for exchanging agrofood products which incorporate social values into the transactional environment. These systems are comprised of many different ...
Three essays on the potential economic impacts of biotech crops in the presence of asynchronous regulatory approval
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
are analyzed. Based on the analysis, conclusions were drawn on the likelihood of various adoption scenarios, the possibility of trade disruptions, and the possibility of redistribution of innovation rents in the event of asynchronous regulatory approval...
Climate variation and corn price volatility : a partial equilibrium model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Projected future climate changes in the US Corn Belt provides motivation to study how these changes will affect the volatility of crop prices. Recent publications focused on how these changes in climate and climate variability ...
Energy use in meat processing in the Midwest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1979)
availability. This threat was particularly evident during the winter of 1976-77 when cold weather forced economic hardship on many people and businesses. When energy consumption data are viewed from the standpoint of energy types, it is apparent...
The impact of school characteristics on return migration
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
the impact of out-migration. The study uses the National Educational Longitudinal Survey (NELS:88-00) data set to evaluate a student's decision to return to their local area after graduating from college based on personal, place and school characteristics...
The development and evaluation of a method of estimating Missouri country farm income from secondary data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1962)
"Specific objectives: There are discrepancies in farm income between counties in a given state. The extent and nature of these discrepancies are concealed when income is aggregated into a single figure for the state. The ...
An empirical study of advertised retail meat prices in a metropolitan area
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1975)
in per capita supply of meat. It was found that each store had a tendency to follow the advertising pattern practiced by it during the immediate past, whereas over the long run they tend to reshuffle the mix of items going into their ads. Furthermore...