Browsing 1960-1969 Dissertations (MU) by Thesis Department "Agricultural economics (MU)"
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An analysis of an alternative marketing system for cotton involving delayed ginning through various storage techniques
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1964)For technical reasons, cotton gins normally operate at constant rates, and vary hours of operation to accommodate available volume. In this sense, time becomes an input and, in the case of cotton gins, a cost reducing input ... -
An analysis of livestock marketing patterns in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1960)"Missouri is fortunate in its strategic location near the heart of the grain belt east of the Great plains cattle producing areas and on the western fringe of concentrated centers of population. A combination of favorable ... -
An analysis of record systems for farm management
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1968)This study was designed to provide information as to the efficiency of EDP farm record systems in meeting the record requirements of large multiple-enterprise farming operations. Because of the many questions raised about ... -
An analysis of the agricultural base and potential in State Economic Area 2b in northeast Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1965)Important changes have occurred since 1950 in the agriculture of the State Economic Area 2b, a sixteen county area in northeast Missouri. The changes have been induced by broad movements in economic and technological forces ... -
The development and evaluation of a method of estimating Missouri country farm income from secondary data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1962)"Specific objectives: There are discrepancies in farm income between counties in a given state. The extent and nature of these discrepancies are concealed when income is aggregated into a single figure for the state. The ... -
Indexes of the influence of weather on corn yields in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1964)Aggregate measures of outputs and inputs are published periodically by the Bureau of Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, to help in understanding the changing economic situation. Two types of variation, systematic and ... -
Irrigation practices and costs in southeastern Missouri - 1959
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1961)Field crop irrigation is a relatively new production technique in Missouri. Prior to this investigation, only United information was available concerning costs and returns. The research reported here was assigned to determine ... -
A managerial-economics analysis of selected Midwestern Class I motor common carriers of refrigerated commodities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1966)At least 60 per cent of the food consumed in this country requires temperature control in the distribution process. Although regulated motor carriers transport important quantities of perishable products, the organisational ... -
Potential of India as a net exporter of cotton and cotton textile goods
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1965)Among agricultural commodities, cotton and cotton textile goods are second only to tea in the contribution to India’s export earnings. This study was designed to explore the possibility of augmenting the supply of cotton ... -
Scale and utilization economics in feeding cattle under three feeding systems : a feasibility study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1967)"Since the end of World War II the cattle feeding industry in the United States has been characterized by three major, and to a certain degree, related developments: 1. A marked expansion in numbers. In the two decades ...