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Adoption and diffusion of agrobiotechnologies in the US cotton production
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2004)
The study examines the farm level adoption and county level diffusion of three cotton biotechnologies in the US: insect resistant (Bollgard®), herbicide tolerance (Roundup Ready®), and stacked trait (Bollgard® & Roundup Ready®). Adoption...
Three essays on the competitiveness of the US corn seed industry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
which provides a measure of the degree of market power in the corn seed industry. The degree of market power is moderate given the large fixed cost that seed production and the development of biotechnologies necessitates. In the second essay I provide...
Contract practices and contract design in the U.S. hemp industry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
farmers and processors of industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) and to characterize them with respect to the fundamentals of contracting: Decision Rights, Uncertainty and Value allocations. Primary data was gathered through a nationally distributed survey...
Political economy, political entrepreneurship and biofuels regulation in the US
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
for the present market. As the market matured, profit incentives stimulated the emergence of competing actors, who in their combined actions, shaped regulation of the biofuels industry. Although interest group action may not be the only factor explaining...
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 ...
Three essays on entrepreneurship : theory, measurement, and environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This dissertation consists of three essays. In Essay One, I question the conventional wisdom that economic transactions are governed either by the price mechanism or by the authority of the firm. I argue that the exchange ...
The investment horizon issue in user-owned organizations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
This research addresses the issue of an investment constraint in user-owned agricultural organizations called the horizon problem. Scholars have suggested the restrictions on the transferability of residual claimant rights ...