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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, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Economic analysis of potato, corn, and wheat response to nitrogen and phosphorus application in the highlands of Ecuador
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1977)
(nitrogen and phosphorus) for specific potato price relationships. 7. Estimate the production function and the optimun combination of nutrients for current price relationships for corn and wheat."--Page 12....
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...
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....
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
A partial equilibrium model of the Chinese swine industry scenarios and comments
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Using a partial equilibrium model of the Chinese swine industry, the author evaluates alternative recovery scenarios from the current African Swine ...
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...
Risk reduction in financing large swine confinement systems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1977)
institutions and the borrowers alike."--Page 7....
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...
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 ...
Financial conditions facilitating growth in local farmer cooperatives
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1976)
"The main objective of this study is to identify and describe the financial conditions which support growth in local farmer cooperatives in the Plains States and the Midwestern States. Achieving the following sub-objectives ...