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Federal crop insurance -- a case study in Audrain County, Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
in Missouri. The importance of Missouri commodities for the entire United States is summarized in Table 2. As the table indicates, corn, wheat, and soybeans account for a large portion of the number of crops insured by the FCIC in the United States."--Introduction....
Exhaustible resources and technological change in the United States agriculture, 1940-1969
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
prior to the estimation of Cobb-Douglas type function. The test evinced the insignificancy between the CES and CD functions. Nonexperimental time series data were used to estimate the aggregate production function. Factors of production that entered...
Estimation of demand parameters : an empirical analysis of consumer behavior in the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1971)
is insufficient for the estimation of a large number of the required parameters. Recent studies of the theory of consumer behavior have provided a number of empirically useful hypotheses concerning the separability of the consumer’s utility functions...
A feedlot beef cattle production function study with an economic analysis of corn-silage rations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1971)
"The Problem and Objectives: The basic Impetus for this study is well summarized by Heady’s comment: Although economics deals quite largely with the maximization (profit, national product) or minimization (cost, resource ...
An essay on the idea and logic of agricultural economics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1977)
belief in the universal validity and applicability of neoclassical economic theory. All these problems essentially arose as an unintended consequence of the applied economists' solution to what is termed the "Schultz Dilemma." Therefore, this essay...
Job turnover among displaced agricultural workers within the Mississippi Delta area of Eastern Arkansas : extent, costs, and criteria of cause
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
by a number of factors. Thus, the conclusions and generalizations are limited. The scope of the inquiry was limited to: (1) only those firms of the eastern Arkansas area which employed displaced agricultural workers and hired more than fifty factory...
A semi-annual econometric model of the United States feed grain-livestock economy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1979)
was chosen for application because it remains operational even when the number of predetermined variables exceeds the number of observations. It also assures consistent estimators for the structural and reduced form parameters. In structural and reduced form...
Decision making process of African farmers : a theoretical approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
"The objectives and limitations: The objective of this dissertation is to derive an economic decision rule from the given set of underlying concepts of social organization of African societies. The small cultivator is used ...
An economic analysis of the agricultural development potential for Southern Honduras
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1975)
The study was conducted in the Valle and Choluteca Districts of Southern Honduras in 1974. The objectives of the study were (1) to identify input-output relationships for selected crops; (2) determine current and potential ...