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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....
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)
microeconomic problem--the derivation of the production function for a technical unit and the subsequent economic analysis of the technical production function.3 To be specific, a knowledge of the relevant technical production function for feedlot beef cattle...
Rice : an alternative crop for southeast Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1978)
Missouri. The specific objectives will be to determine rice’s competitive position under the following situations: 1. Labor and water restrictions. 2. Water restrictions only. 3. Varied labor costs. 4. Varied land amounts. 5. Varied returns to rice."--Introduction....
Scale and utilization economics in feeding cattle under three feeding systems : a feasibility study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1967)
of the number of cattle fed dropped from 60 percent to 47 percent. While at the same time the proportion accounted for by the southern plains and the western states advanced from 18 percent to 33 percent. 3. A shift in the structure in the industry from...