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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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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...
Three essays on phosphorus runoff and water quality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
national water quality and political economy data and by investigating a national survey of soybean producers, this dissertation found implications to increase adoption of environmentally friendly policies and practices. Solving this problem will require...
Insights for rural health care provider retention : a quantitative survey analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
volunteering reduces providers' likelihood to consider leaving by 10 percent. Additionally, providers who engage in entrepreneurship by investing in part or all of their practice are 12 percent less likely to consider leaving, all else being equal. I also find...
Three essays on demand for meat and dairy products evidence from household level data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
, demand elasticities of all dairy commodities were different between the two periods. Lastly, the results of this research are used to forecast U.S. beef, pork, and poultry consumption by 2030. The consumption projections, based on each period separately...
Essays on applied econometrics : applications of the futures markets and the international tourism demand
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
factors affecting crop basis patterns helps agribusiness persons and producers make better strategies. Based on the spatial analysis, I find an increase in lagged basis, futures liquidity, differenced cash prices and seasonality strengthen the grain basis...
Work stock management
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
The object of this investigation is to arrive at some conclusion or determine, if possible, the most satisfactory means or methods of management of the work stock or work animals on the farms in actual operation.
The measurement of decoupled payments' effects on U.S. agricultural production
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
In the current WTO negotiations, the developing and the developed countries take an opposite view regarding the criteria for green box subsidies supposed to be decoupled from current production levels and prices. This study ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Understanding how violence impacts rural mexico: a cross sectional analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Violence has negative impacts on the wellbeing of civilians, but it specifically has a stronger impact on the rural poor. In Mexico, the rural poor are often ignored in academic research and in policies that address violence, ...
Three essays on agricultural price volatility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
strategy; the second essay described a State Space Model approach estimation of the joint distribution of cash-futures prices and a simulation-based Conditional-VaR approach determination of optimal futures exposure determination in contrast with minimum...
Are structural changes in the agri-food sector causing the instability of parochial ag-producers?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Parochial (Amish and Mennonites) agriculture producers have been known for their stability (historically large numbers) (Kollmorgen, 1943). Though, more recently, the percentage of parochial members who are ag-producers ...