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Fertilizer and Fuel Outlook for Fall 2005
(Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005-09)
As producers begin to review their balance sheets after harvest, many will find the squeeze of not only lower commodity prices, but substantially higher costs. This fall outlook summarizes costs for 2005 and provides insight ...
Innovation and Dynamic Efficiency in Agricultural Biotechnology
(AgBioForum, 2005)
Innovation is the key to firm survival and growth in many industries, but nowhere more so than in agricultural biotechnology. Understanding the causes and consequences of biotechnology innovation requires negotiating a complex thicket of economic...
Agricultural Commodity Futures Contract Specifications
(University of Missouri Extension, 2000-12)
This guide provides information about commodity exchange markets and contract specifications for selected agricultural commodities common to Missouri. It is important that you as an agricultural producer have a clear understanding of the operation...
Agricultural phosphorus and water quality
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2018)
for efforts to maintain and improve water quality. Water quality has declined in some parts of Missouri in the 1990s. The effect of agriculture -- particularly the effect of phosphorus from agriculture -- in surface water quality has become a focal point...
Preliminary Assessment of Counter-cyclical Payment (CCP) Options
(Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000-11)
The Commission on 21st Century Production Agriculture has requested that the Food and
Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) provide an assessment of two countercyclical payment proposals. The payments are designed ...
Factors influencing Missouri high school agricultural mechanics students safety climate attitudes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] High school agricultural mechanics students safety perceptions are largely unrepresented in agricultural education research. With student perceptions being a large part...
The influence of social support on teacher self-efficacy in novice agricultural education teachers /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
to evaluate the ways in which social support influences teacher self-efficacy. The purpose of this descriptive-relational study was to determine the influence of sources and types of support on teacher self-efficacy in novice agricultural education teachers...
Introduction to hedging agricultural commodities with futures (2011)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2011)
Producers of agricultural commodities regularly face price and production risks. Furthermore, increased global free trade and changes in domestic agricultural policy have increased these risks. As the variability of price increases the variability...
Structural Changes in the Agricultural Economy
(2007-10)
Testimony at public hearing before the House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture on October 18, 2007....
Collective Entrepreneurship: An Emerging Phenomenon in Producer-Owned Organizations
(Southern Agricultural Economics Association, 2006-08)
This paper introduces and defines the concept of collective entrepreneurship. A review of the defensive single-level rent-seeking objective of traditional agricultural cooperatives is introduced followed by an analysis of recent studies documenting...
The impact of agricultural growth on the rural development in Vietnam
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2019)
Rural development is a global relevant phenomenon that needs the particular attention of researchers as well as regulators to achieve the development goals it entails. Considering this, the present study investigates the impact of agriculture growth...
Unpacking preservice agriculture teacher development through reflective awareness of stress: a mixed methods study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This mixed methods study used reflective awareness of stress to unpack preservice agriculture teacher development from the perspective of a teacher educator. Quantitative physiological stress data was collected using heart rate variability (HRV...
Impact on Missouri Agriculture of the Recent Gulf Coast Hurricanes
(Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005-10)
Missouri agriculture is being hit in two ways from the recent Gulf coast hurricanes. A combination of higher input costs and lower output prices will certainly squeeze the bottom line for Missouri agriculture as we enter 2006....
Effect of Higher Energy Prices from H.R. 2454 on Missouri Crop Production Costs
(Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 2009-07)
This report incorporates higher energy prices estimated by CRA International under H.R. 2454 on Missouri crop production costs.
FAPRI July 2006 Baseline Update for U.S. Agricultural Markets
(Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006-07)
This report presents a summary of the five-year baseline outlook update for major U.S. agricultural commodity markets....
Precision agriculture
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 2019)
A form to print out and send to the Soil and Plant Testing Laboratory to test agriculture soil samples....
Latino agricultural entrepreneurship project (research team)
(Cambio Center, 2016)
The Latino Agricultural Entrepreneurship Project has team members across three states: Iowa, Michigan, and Missouri. The project is being administered through the University of Missouri’s Cambio Center, with the assistance of CAFNR International...
FAPRI-University of Pretoria Collaboration: Final Report for the University of Missouri South African Education Program
(Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004-07)
The aim of the collaboration is to facilitate academic exchange between the University of Pretoria and the University of Missouri in the area of agricultural economics. In particular, staff at the University of Pretoria Department of Agricultural...
Taking technology from concept to commercialization
(2010-10)
The Missouri Technology Expo 2010 opened with welcome addresses from Chancellor Brady Deaton and Dr. Robert Duncan and the keynote address from Dr. Stephen Padgette. Dr. Padgette discussed the commercialization of technology, ...
Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008: Preliminary Analysis of Selected Provisions
(Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008-07)
This report provides preliminary analysis of impacts of selected Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 (FCEA) provisions.