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Small Changes In The Farm Bill Fruit And Vegetable Provisions May Pay Big Dividends For Western Nebraska Dry Edible Bean Producers Facing Continued Drought, Paul Burgener Sep 2002

Small Changes In The Farm Bill Fruit And Vegetable Provisions May Pay Big Dividends For Western Nebraska Dry Edible Bean Producers Facing Continued Drought, Paul Burgener

Cornhusker Economics

The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 has retained many of the same restrictions for producers with dry edible beans in their cropping system. Dry beans are included in the fruit and vegetable (FAV) crop classification under the new direct and counter cyclical (DCP) program. This is consistent with the past farm legislation. However, there are a few changes in the new farm legislation regarding the FAV rules that could be very beneficial to Western Nebraska farmers who have grown dry edible beans in the past, or who intend to grow them in the future.

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Public School Financing In Nebraska: A Chronic Dilemma, Bruce B. Johnson Sep 2002

Public School Financing In Nebraska: A Chronic Dilemma, Bruce B. Johnson

Cornhusker Economics

School Financing – hardly any topic gets more spirited debate than this. Those who bear the brunt of the property tax say we have pushed the limits; while others see greater state formula dollars to schools being synonymous with tax increases someplace else. Moreover, many people fear the erosion of local control of their schools as financing changes. However, regardless of one’s personal position, these are extraordinary economic times that require us to be realistic. The following data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest Annual Survey of Local Government Finances, I believe, sheds some light on this topic.

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Nebraska Supreme Court Restricts Farm & Ranch Worker Compensation Exemption, J. David Aiken Sep 2002

Nebraska Supreme Court Restricts Farm & Ranch Worker Compensation Exemption, J. David Aiken

Cornhusker Economics

Agricultural workers comprise 6.6 percent of the Nebraska workforce; yet 33 percent of the Nebraska workplace fatalities from October 1, 2001- September 30, 2002 were agricultural related. This means that agricultural work related fatalities were 500 percent of agriculture’s proportionate share. Obviously, agriculture is a hazardous industry. Nonetheless, Nebraska statutes §48-106(2) states that “the following are declared not to be hazardous occupations . . . : employers of household domestic servants and employers of farm and ranch laborers . . . .” On July 26, 2002, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled in Larsen v D B Feedyards, 264 Neb 483, …

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Taxes And Quality: A Market-Level Analysis, Jennifer S. James, Julian M. Alston Sep 2002

Taxes And Quality: A Market-Level Analysis, Jennifer S. James, Julian M. Alston

Agribusiness

A conventional assumption of product homogeneity when the commodity of interest is actually heterogeneous will lead to errors in an analysis of the incidence of policies, such as taxes. In this article, an equilibrium displacement model is used to derive analytical solutions for price, quantity, and quality effects of ad valorem and per unit taxes. The results show how parameters determine the effects of tax policies on quality. The potential for tax-induced distortions in quality, and the distributive consequences of those distortions, are illustrated in a case study of the market for Australian wine.

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The Economic Feasibility Of Forming A California Wheat Cooperative, Jay E. Noel, James J. Ahern, David J. Schaffner, Jill Johnson, Kristina Muelrath, Kyle Schroeder Sep 2002

The Economic Feasibility Of Forming A California Wheat Cooperative, Jay E. Noel, James J. Ahern, David J. Schaffner, Jill Johnson, Kristina Muelrath, Kyle Schroeder

Agribusiness

Recent concerns relative to California farm gate prices for wheat and a lack of profitability in wheat production has been expressed by a group of California wheat growers. Their dissatisfaction has resulted in their consideration to form a California wheat grower cooperative. The cooperative would become the marketing agent for the growers and potentially allow growers to pool their production for greater market power as well as capture profits beyond the farm gate. Two feasibility issues are addressed by the study: 1) The organizational feasibility of forming the cooperative, and 2) The economic feasibility of a California wheat growers cooperative …

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Insensible Perspiration And Oily Vegetable Humor: An Eighteenth Century Controversy Over Vegetarianism, Ken Albala Sep 2002

Insensible Perspiration And Oily Vegetable Humor: An Eighteenth Century Controversy Over Vegetarianism, Ken Albala

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

Quack diets are nothing new. Nor have they always been easily dismissed. In eighteenth-century Italy, a virulent controversy arose over a meatless wonder diet. This controversy would eventually play itself out in the field of nutritional theory, as dietary writers crambled to incorporate the latest scientific findings into their recommendations.

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Textural And Microstructural Changes Associated With Post-Harvest Hardening Of Trifoliate Yam (Dioscorea Dumetorum) Pax Tubers, Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa, Samuel Sefa-Dedeh Aug 2002

Textural And Microstructural Changes Associated With Post-Harvest Hardening Of Trifoliate Yam (Dioscorea Dumetorum) Pax Tubers, Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa, Samuel Sefa-Dedeh

Professor Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa

The textural and microstructural changes associated with the post-harvest hardening phenomenon of Dioscorea dumetorum tubers were studied to determine how texture relates to microstructure during the hardening process. A 2x2x4 factorial experiment with sample treatment,storage conditions and storage time as variables was performed. The tubers were harvested,matured and stored under prevailing tropical ambient conditions (28 _C) and cold room conditions (4 _C) for the study. All the samples were evaluated for their hardness (peak force) and adhesiveness (curve areas). Starch microscopy was done on the freshly harvested tubers,hardened tubers and tubers stored under low temperature conditions (4 _C) during the …

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The New Farm Bill: An Increase Or Decrease In Farm Program Payments?, Roger Selley Aug 2002

The New Farm Bill: An Increase Or Decrease In Farm Program Payments?, Roger Selley

Cornhusker Economics

The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (the farm bill) has been recognized as potentially providing agricultural producers with enhanced financial support. The bill has titles (sections) that address commodity programs, conservation, trade, nutrition programs, credit, rural development, research, forestry and energy. Some provisions are intended to indirectly affect producer prices and costs of production through trade promotion and research, for example. The commodity and conservation programs promise direct support for agriculture based on planting history and production, as well as payments for following specific production practices expected to conserve resources and protect the environment. The purpose of …

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Direct And Indirect Effects Of Drought On South Dakota's Economy, Matthew A. Diersen, Gary Taylor, Alan May Aug 2002

Direct And Indirect Effects Of Drought On South Dakota's Economy, Matthew A. Diersen, Gary Taylor, Alan May

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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World Grain Situation And Some Marketing Strategies, Lynn Lutgen Aug 2002

World Grain Situation And Some Marketing Strategies, Lynn Lutgen

Cornhusker Economics

On August 12, USDA released the fist crop production report that truly reflected the drought conditions that exist here in the United States. The market responded favorably to the report and of course prices rose.

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Is Today’S Agricultural Policy The Appropriate Approach To Meeting The Needs Of Rural Farm Families?, Ray Supalla Aug 2002

Is Today’S Agricultural Policy The Appropriate Approach To Meeting The Needs Of Rural Farm Families?, Ray Supalla

Cornhusker Economics

Susan Offutt, Administrator, Economic Research Service (ERS), USDA, and incoming president of the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA), gave a stimulating presidential address last week in Long Beach, California. Her theme was that it is time for agricultural policy to begin focusing on rural farm household income rather than just income from the farm business as a measure of rural need and well being.

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Education - Human Capital Investment, Richard Shane Aug 2002

Education - Human Capital Investment, Richard Shane

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Dealing With Cooperative Losses, Darrell R. Mark Aug 2002

Dealing With Cooperative Losses, Darrell R. Mark

Cornhusker Economics

Nebraska has about 80 farm supply and marketing cooperatives that provide over 75,000 member-producers with agricultural inputs and marketing services. As owners, these member-producers provide the equity to finance their local cooperative. Many of the local cooperatives in Nebraska are part of the federated cooperative system. That is, they invest in and become owners of regional cooperatives that offer grain merchandising services and supply wholesale inputs such as fertilizer, petroleum products and ag chemicals. As equity holders in regional cooperatives, local cooperatives are subject to both gains and losses on their investments in regionals. With the current bankruptcy reorganization of …

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A Game Theory Approach To Deciding Who Will Supply Instream Flow Water, Ray Supalla, Bettina Klaus, Osei Yeboah, Randall Bruins Aug 2002

A Game Theory Approach To Deciding Who Will Supply Instream Flow Water, Ray Supalla, Bettina Klaus, Osei Yeboah, Randall Bruins

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

The resource management problem for the Middle Platte ecosystem is the insufficient water available to meet both instream ecological demands and out-of-stream economic needs. This problem of multiple interest groups competing for a limited resource is compounded by sharp disagreement in the scientific community over endangered species’ needs for instream flows. In this study, game theory was used to address one dimension of this resource management problem. A sequential auction with repeated bidding was used to determine how much instream flow water each of three states – Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming – will provide and at what price. The results …

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Mandatory Versus Voluntary Price Reporting: An Empirical Investigation Of The Market Transparency Controversy, Scott Fausti, R. Keimig, Matthew Diersen, Han Kim Aug 2002

Mandatory Versus Voluntary Price Reporting: An Empirical Investigation Of The Market Transparency Controversy, Scott Fausti, R. Keimig, Matthew Diersen, Han Kim

Economics Staff Paper Series

The ability of the former voluntary price reporting system to generate market transparency in U.S. livestock markets was called into question by producer groups and academic research prior to the new federal system of mandatory price reporting being implemented. The market transparency issue is investigated by comparing price data collected from the former AMS voluntary price reporting system to mandatory price reporting data for live slaughter steers collected by the State of South Dakota before the advent of the new federal system. The relationship between a set of public price report series and the South Dakota mandatory price series is …

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Impacts Of Technology Adoption: Comparing Returns To The Farming Sector In Maine Under Alternative Technology Regimes, Aaron K. Hoshide Aug 2002

Impacts Of Technology Adoption: Comparing Returns To The Farming Sector In Maine Under Alternative Technology Regimes, Aaron K. Hoshide

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis tests if certain technology choices are associated with a reduction in the proportion of farming activities in the agro-food system in Maine. Goodman, Sorj, and Wilkinson define appropriationism as the replacement of farming sector activities by industrial inputs. Based on the concept of appropriationism, industrial fanning systems using large amounts of synthetic inputs contribute less to fanning than more agrarian systems, like organic fanning. Thus, returns to the farming sector should be greater for organic compared with conventional potato fanning in Maine since organic farming uses fewer industrial inputs. Goodman et. al. define substitutionism as the displacement of …

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Determinants Of Consumer Behavior In An E-Commerce Environment, Xiang Xue Aug 2002

Determinants Of Consumer Behavior In An E-Commerce Environment, Xiang Xue

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Online specialty food and beverage marketing has developed rapidly in the last decade. With the obvious increase in the sales income, researchers showed more and more interests in this promising market. Previous studies in this field primarily focused on the demographic profiling of the online specialty food consumers as well as initial analysis in the factors that motivate their purchase behavior. However, it is far from fully explaining consumer's online shopping activities. In order to solve these problems, new methods should be attempted to determine the factors influencing consumer's online buying behavior. A cluster analysis was developed to identify what …

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Changes In Cell Wall Constituents And Mechanical Properties During Post-Harvest Hardening Of Trifoliate Yam Dioscorea Dumetorum (Kunth) Pax Tubers, Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa, Samuel Sefa-Dedeh Jul 2002

Changes In Cell Wall Constituents And Mechanical Properties During Post-Harvest Hardening Of Trifoliate Yam Dioscorea Dumetorum (Kunth) Pax Tubers, Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa, Samuel Sefa-Dedeh

Professor Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa

In an attempt to investigate the changes leading to the rapid post-harvest hardening of the white cultivars of Dioscorea dumetorum tubers, alterations in the plant cell wall constituents and mechanical properties of the tubers were monitored. A 4x2 factorial experiment with storage time (0, 24, 48 and 72 h) and storage conditions [cold room (4 _C, 85–100% RH) and tropical ambient (28 _C, 62–100% RH)] as variables were performed. Harvested tubers were stored for 24, 48 and 72 h under 4 and 28 _C. Changes in mechanical properties, acid and neutral detergent fibres, lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose contents were monitored. …

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Blowing Hot And Cold: Carbon And The Question Of Climate Change, Gary D. Lynne Jul 2002

Blowing Hot And Cold: Carbon And The Question Of Climate Change, Gary D. Lynne

Cornhusker Economics

The title is borrowed in part from a section in the recent “Survey of the Global Environment” published in The Economist, an economically conservative magazine that also asks more broadly “How Many Planets?” will it take to support a world-wide economy like that in the U.S.A. (see Vaitheeswaran). The answer is: It would take 3-planet earths, which is perhaps the main reason the United Nations, with both private (e.g., the Ford Foundation) and public financial support, is sponsoring the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa this fall. According to the following website, upwards of 60,000 individuals will be …

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Economic Evaluation Of Cropshare And Cash Lease Contracts In South Dakota And Nebraska, Larry Janssen, John Cole, Xuan Xu, Bruce Johnson Jul 2002

Economic Evaluation Of Cropshare And Cash Lease Contracts In South Dakota And Nebraska, Larry Janssen, John Cole, Xuan Xu, Bruce Johnson

Department of Agricultural Economics: Presentations, Working Papers, and Gray Literature

Factors influencing choice of share or cash rental leases for cropland are examined using a 1996 dataset containing 1071 lease contracts in Nebraska and in South Dakota. Logistic regression results indicate tenant’s age, capital position, and relationship with landlord were more important than leased land use or crop management variables.

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A Multiattribute Utility Analysis Of Technological Choice In The California Wild Rice Industry, Jay E. Noel, James J. Ahern, Jess Errecarte, Kyle Schroeder Jul 2002

A Multiattribute Utility Analysis Of Technological Choice In The California Wild Rice Industry, Jay E. Noel, James J. Ahern, Jess Errecarte, Kyle Schroeder

Agribusiness

The California wild rice industry in 2001 is undergoing change. This change is being driven by increased wild rice production, changes in wild rice demand, and buyer concerns relative to product quality and food safety. These changes necessitate the need for the industry to evaluate its operational and marketing strategies. A major concern of the industry is how to meet the on-going changes while remaining profitable. The major emphasis of this study to evaluate two of the technological choices that are available to meet those changes. The technologies are a traditional technology and newer experimental technology that has been conceptualized, …

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Planning For Beef Cattle Operations In The Face Of Drought, Richard T. Clark, Don C. Adams Jul 2002

Planning For Beef Cattle Operations In The Face Of Drought, Richard T. Clark, Don C. Adams

Cornhusker Economics

About two years ago we wrote a Cornhusker Economics article on this same topic. Unfortunately, the current drought is more widespread and onerous. Presently, many producers are out or about to be out of grass. This late in the year options are limited. Selling cattle, including part of the breeding herd is an option that many have begun to exercise. Weaning early, selling the calves or placing them in feedlots and feeding the cows are other options.

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Assessing Drought Damage, Roy Frederick Jul 2002

Assessing Drought Damage, Roy Frederick

Cornhusker Economics

Nebraskans see it around them every day. Browning pastures, withered cornfields and higher water bills are reminders of the ongoing drought. Not surprisingly, most of us worry about the drought’s impact in personal terms. If you farm, what is it doing to my crops? Or my irrigation costs? If you own a business in a rural community, how much is the drought reducing producers’ off-farm purchases? Obviously, the bottom-line concern is that droughts affect our pocketbooks.

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Agricultural, Resource And Ecological Economics With A ‘Multifunctionality’ Perspective, Thomas Dobbs Jul 2002

Agricultural, Resource And Ecological Economics With A ‘Multifunctionality’ Perspective, Thomas Dobbs

Economics Staff Paper Series

It would seem that agriculture in industrialized countries is experiencing 'the best of times' and 'the worst of times'. Productivity per unit of land and, consequently, aggregate food and fiber output have climbed dramatically since World War II. Food is generally 'cheap' relative to average per capita incomes. However, the costs of this abundance are becoming increasingly apparent. Drinking water supplies are becoming contaminated, bird and fish populations have declined, plant and animal biodiversity has been lost, and soil organic matter has declined. Also, agriculture appears increasingly vulnerable to human and animal health scares. Witness the recent outbreaks in Europe …

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Nebraska Supreme Court Rules County Livestock Zoning Regulations Legal, J. David Aiken Jul 2002

Nebraska Supreme Court Rules County Livestock Zoning Regulations Legal, J. David Aiken

Cornhusker Economics

The development of large swine production facilities has been highly controversial in Nebraska for the past several years. A major focus of the “hog wars” has been county livestock zoning regulations. In Nebraska, livestock facilities are subject to state environmental regulation by the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality, and to local zoning regulations if the county is zoned (or if the livestock facility will be located near a zoned community). The number of zoned counties has more than doubled in the last decade from 36 to at least 75. Most of the newly zoned counties have adopted zoning in order …

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The Farm Security And Rural Investment Act Of 2002: A Chang Ein Policy Or A Continuation Of Freedom To Farm?, Gary Taylor Jul 2002

The Farm Security And Rural Investment Act Of 2002: A Chang Ein Policy Or A Continuation Of Freedom To Farm?, Gary Taylor

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Market Reports Jul 2002

Market Reports

Cornhusker Economics

No abstract provided.

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Economic Evaluation Of Cropshare And Cash Lease Contracts In South Dakota And Nebraska, Larry Janssen, John Cole, Xuan Xu, Bruce Johnson Jul 2002

Economic Evaluation Of Cropshare And Cash Lease Contracts In South Dakota And Nebraska, Larry Janssen, John Cole, Xuan Xu, Bruce Johnson

Economics Staff Paper Series

Factors influencing choice of share or cash rental leases for cropland are examined using a 1996 dataset containing 1071 lease contracts in Nebraska and in South Dakota. Logistic regression results indicate tenant's age, capital position, and relationship with landlord were more important than leased land use or crop management variables.

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Determinants Of Demand For Food In Greece (Undergraduate Thesis, In Greek), Andreas Drichoutis Jul 2002

Determinants Of Demand For Food In Greece (Undergraduate Thesis, In Greek), Andreas Drichoutis

Andreas Drichoutis

No abstract provided.

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Focus Spring/Summer 2002 Jul 2002

Focus Spring/Summer 2002

FOCUS: Economic Issues for Nebraskans

Contents:
Research on Nebraska Agricultural Productivity by Richard K. Perrin
Nebraska's Farm Real Estate Market: A Quarter-Century Perspective by Bruce B. Johnson and Glenn A. Helmers
The Dynamics of Water Quality Policy by Raymond J. Supalla and Saeed Ahmad
Beef Industry Structure, Marketing and Policy Issues by Dillon M. Feuz
UNLÕs Agribusiness Program Works for Students by Ronald J. Hanson and Jessica L. McKillip
Focus on teaching
Focus on research
Focus on outreach
Focus on people

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