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Implications Of Tomorrow's Environment For Agricultural Economics Programs In Different-Sized Departments And For Non-Land Grant Universities, Ardelle Lundeen Dec 1993

Implications Of Tomorrow's Environment For Agricultural Economics Programs In Different-Sized Departments And For Non-Land Grant Universities, Ardelle Lundeen

Economics Staff Paper Series

This paper focuses on trends in five areas which appear to have significant implications for the future of agricultural economics departments: population changes, changes in the structure of agriculture, the advent of the information society/computer age, work force changes, and changes in higher education. I believe trends in these areas have already affected agricultural economics departments and will continue to do so.

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A Socio-Economic Study Of Nature Tourist Behavior In Louisiana, Rudolf Walter Jacobs Ast Dec 1993

A Socio-Economic Study Of Nature Tourist Behavior In Louisiana, Rudolf Walter Jacobs Ast

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

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Long-Term Economic Performance Of Alternative, Conventional, And Reduced Tillage Farming Systems In East-Central And Northeast South Dakota; Grain Prices: Seasonal High May Be Past, Thomas L. Dobbs, Lon D. Henning, Richard Shane Nov 1993

Long-Term Economic Performance Of Alternative, Conventional, And Reduced Tillage Farming Systems In East-Central And Northeast South Dakota; Grain Prices: Seasonal High May Be Past, Thomas L. Dobbs, Lon D. Henning, Richard Shane

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Tonga: Rural Employment And Development, Piyasiri Wickramasekara Nov 1993

Tonga: Rural Employment And Development, Piyasiri Wickramasekara

PIYASIRI WICKRAMASEKARA

The report first highlights the nature of the rural employment problem In Tonga in the early 1990s. It goes on to discuss important Issues affecting the rural and agricultural sectors. The study further reviews the institutional machinery for rural development and makes a number of recommendations for an employment-oriented rural development strategy.

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The Effects Of Uncertainty On Market Structure: The South Dakota Slaughter Cattle Market, Scott Fausti, Dillon Feuz Oct 1993

The Effects Of Uncertainty On Market Structure: The South Dakota Slaughter Cattle Market, Scott Fausti, Dillon Feuz

Economics Staff Paper Series

In terms of population and income, South Dakota is a small, rural state relative to the rest of the nation. South Dakota's 1992 Gross State Product (GSP) was roughly 12 billion dollars, which implies South Dakota contributes .2% toward U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The agricultural sector of the South Dakota economy contributed approximately 10% to GSP in 1992. The beef industry is the largest agricultural subsector in the state. In 1992, it generated 1.3 billion dollars in marketing revenue and produced approximately 41% of agriculture's contribution to GSP. The importance of the beef industry to the South Dakota's economy …

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Nafta And Its Impact On Northern Plains Agriculture; Test Weight Discounts And On-Farm Drying Decisions, John Sondey, Richard Shane Oct 1993

Nafta And Its Impact On Northern Plains Agriculture; Test Weight Discounts And On-Farm Drying Decisions, John Sondey, Richard Shane

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Dairy Outlook; Hog Comments, Donald Peterson, Gene Murra Oct 1993

Dairy Outlook; Hog Comments, Donald Peterson, Gene Murra

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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The Effect Of Enforcement And Taxes In A Joint Export, Scott Fausti Oct 1993

The Effect Of Enforcement And Taxes In A Joint Export, Scott Fausti

Economics Staff Paper Series

This paper proposes a model of joint product smuggling which explicitly examines the roles of uncertainty, enforcement, taxes, and the magnitude of a real resource cost in determining the firm's decision to smuggle and smuggling's impact on welfare and tax revenue collection. A framework is presented in which: 1) the tax rate, 2) the level of government enforcement, and 3) the real resource cost are analyzed to determine their impact on a firm's decision to smuggle or engage in strictly legal trade. The results derived in the paper indicate that the implied policy solution for the smuggling problem arrived at …

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Seasonality In Corn And Soybean Prices Received By South Dakota Farmers; Grain: Sell Or Store, Bashir A. Qasmi, Richard Shane Sep 1993

Seasonality In Corn And Soybean Prices Received By South Dakota Farmers; Grain: Sell Or Store, Bashir A. Qasmi, Richard Shane

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Outlook: Economy Ok, But Significant Changes Coming For Agriculture, Donald Peterson Sep 1993

Outlook: Economy Ok, But Significant Changes Coming For Agriculture, Donald Peterson

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Beef Cattle Producer "Sustainability" And "Organic” Indices, Donald Taylor, Dillon Feuz Sep 1993

Beef Cattle Producer "Sustainability" And "Organic” Indices, Donald Taylor, Dillon Feuz

Economics Staff Paper Series

This paper covers one component of a research project aimed at exploring the sustainability of beef cattle production in South Dakota. In this exploratory research, farmers/ranchers who follow alternative "near-organic" production practices are being studied in relation to farmers/ranchers who follow "mainstream" production practices. The study is being accomplished through comparisons of four "matching" pairs of "near-organic" and "mainstream" case study farms/ranches, with the members of each pair being as similar as possible in size-of-operation, types of cattle, natural and economic resources, and overall farm management levels. The comparisons involve both physical and economic measures of production. To determine farmers/ranchers …

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Group Risk Plan A New Program From The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, Burton Pflueger Sep 1993

Group Risk Plan A New Program From The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, Burton Pflueger

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Sustainable Beef Cattle Production; Livestock Outlook, Donald Taylor, Gene Murra Aug 1993

Sustainable Beef Cattle Production; Livestock Outlook, Donald Taylor, Gene Murra

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Implications Of Sustainable Farming Systems In The Northern Great Plains For Farm Profitability And Size, Thomas Dobbs Aug 1993

Implications Of Sustainable Farming Systems In The Northern Great Plains For Farm Profitability And Size, Thomas Dobbs

Economics Staff Paper Series

Labor intensity and returns to labor and management are compared for sustainable (alternative), conventional, and reduced tillage farming systems in the Northern Great Plains, using 7 years of data from a study in South Dakota running through 1992. Implications for farm size of substituting sustainable for conventional systems are examined.

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Prices And Productivity In Agriculture, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin Aug 1993

Prices And Productivity In Agriculture, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

Developing countries often tax agriculture heavily, a practice that might affect the productivity as well as the quantity of resources allocated to agriculture. A variable-coefficient cross-country agricultural production function is estimated, with past price expectations among the determinants of the production coefficients. Productivity’s responsiveness to those expectations implies that had these developing economies eliminated price interventions, agricultural productivity would have increased on average by about a fourth.

In agriculture, as any other sector, output prices affect the amount of resources allocated to aggregate production. According to a review by Binswanger (1989) these movements along the supply function reflect an elasticity …

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Measures Of Waste Due To Quotas, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin Aug 1993

Measures Of Waste Due To Quotas, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

This paper addresses the issue of measuring waste due to the imposition of a production quota. our objective is to elaborate two alternative general equilibrium concepts of the welfare loss due to the imposition of a production quota, and to illustrate their use by considering costs of the U.S. tobacco program.

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Land Rental Adjustment Considerations; Future Prospects For Livestock Producers, Burton Pflueger, Gene Murra Jul 1993

Land Rental Adjustment Considerations; Future Prospects For Livestock Producers, Burton Pflueger, Gene Murra

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Economics Department Alumni Survey; Wheat Price Outlook, Ardelle Lundeen, Dick Shane Jun 1993

Economics Department Alumni Survey; Wheat Price Outlook, Ardelle Lundeen, Dick Shane

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Sustaining Agricultural Production In A Deregulated Economy, M. O. Ojo, E. D. Balogun, Grace O. Evbuomwan Jun 1993

Sustaining Agricultural Production In A Deregulated Economy, M. O. Ojo, E. D. Balogun, Grace O. Evbuomwan

Economic and Financial Review

This paper reviews the policy framework for Nigerian agriculture and gauges Its Impact prior to and since the commencement of economic deregulation. It investigates the prospects, analyses the constraints and outlines a feasible strategy for sustaining agricultural growth in a deregulated enabling environment 1he paper notes that in the pe1iod, 1970 to 1982, the deterioration in agricultural performance In Nigeria was the result not only of external shocks and environmental and/or edaphic factors, but of distorted policy pursuits which Created disincentives for farming. However, following attempts .to deregulate the economy with the adoption of the Structural Adjustment Programme in 1986 …

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Some Strategies For Development Of Nigeria's Agricultural Sector In The 1990s, G. E. Ukpong Jun 1993

Some Strategies For Development Of Nigeria's Agricultural Sector In The 1990s, G. E. Ukpong

Economic and Financial Review

This paper reviews the major policy measures Introduced by the government to Induce growth of output of the agricultural sector and accelerate Its development. Some measures adopted before the Introduction of the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP} Included producer prices selling through Marketing Boards, establishment of financial Institutions and Funds to extend credit to the sector at concessionary Interest rates, and the provision of extension services by ministries of agriculture. Agricultural policy measures under SAP consisted, among others, of abolition of Commodity Boards, free market determination of agricultural product prices, a ban on the export and Import of selected agricultural products …

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South Dakota Agricultural Land Values And Rental Practices: 1993, Larry Janssen, Burton Pflueger Jun 1993

South Dakota Agricultural Land Values And Rental Practices: 1993, Larry Janssen, Burton Pflueger

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Sudanese Famines, Othom Rago Ajak May 1993

Sudanese Famines, Othom Rago Ajak

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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The Skills And Training Needed By Farm Management Researchers In The Future: Discussion, Douglas Franklin May 1993

The Skills And Training Needed By Farm Management Researchers In The Future: Discussion, Douglas Franklin

Economics Staff Paper Series

This paper discusses Loren Tauer's paper entitled "The Skills and Training Needed by Farm Management researches in the Future. "To discuss the skills and training needed in the future, the priorities identified for the future are to be specified to indicate the direction training may need to be focused. As noted English novelist-playwright and Nobel Prize winner John Galsworthy stated, “If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one. "Thus, this paper is a forward looking paper in that regard, thinking about the future so that we can focus on a direction. However, Alan Greenspan has pulled …

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Individual Stock Selection: A Place In The Investment Portfolio; Participation In 1993 Acreage Reduction Program Looks Profitable, John A. Sondey, Donald Peterson Apr 1993

Individual Stock Selection: A Place In The Investment Portfolio; Participation In 1993 Acreage Reduction Program Looks Profitable, John A. Sondey, Donald Peterson

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Results Of Economics Department Alumni Survey, Ziahong Yu, Ardelle Lundeen Apr 1993

Results Of Economics Department Alumni Survey, Ziahong Yu, Ardelle Lundeen

Economics Staff Paper Series

In 1989, the Economics Department conducted a survey of its alumni. Questionnaires were sent to a random sample of 750 alumni who graduated between the years of 1978 and 1988. The response rate was 44% (329 responses). The objective of the survey was to provide the SDSU Economics Department with information on how well the curriculum had prepared graduates for their careers and subsequent employment experiences. The survey information will be used to modify the curriculum, as needed, to improve the quality of education and career preparation for students graduating with majors from the Economics Department.

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Partial Farm Budgeting; Value Based Marketing In The Beef Industry, Burton Pflueger, Dillion Feuz, John Wagner Mar 1993

Partial Farm Budgeting; Value Based Marketing In The Beef Industry, Burton Pflueger, Dillion Feuz, John Wagner

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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The Impact Of "Arkansas Best" On Forward Pricing; Cattle Outlook, Gene Murra, Gene Murra Mar 1993

The Impact Of "Arkansas Best" On Forward Pricing; Cattle Outlook, Gene Murra, Gene Murra

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Ultrafiltration In The Ontario Dairy Industry, Wayne H. Howard, Remy Lambert Mar 1993

Ultrafiltration In The Ontario Dairy Industry, Wayne H. Howard, Remy Lambert

Agribusiness

The economics of introducing ultrafiltration (UF) into the Ontario dairy industry is analyzed. First, a partial budget is developed to determine feasibility of UF on the farm. The budget indicates that the great majority of Ontario dairy farms are not large enough to capture the economies of size inherent in the new technology. Second, a location-allocation model is used to determine the feasibility, number and location of UF collection centers in Ontario. The model indicates that the UF centers would capture the economies of size and the centers would benefit the dairy industry as a whole. However, processors of soft …

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Roles And Limitations Of Enterprise Diversification; Hog Outlook, Donald C. Taylor, Gene Murra Feb 1993

Roles And Limitations Of Enterprise Diversification; Hog Outlook, Donald C. Taylor, Gene Murra

Economics Commentator

No abstract provided.

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Asean-4: Agricultural Diversification In The 1990s, Donald Taylor Feb 1993

Asean-4: Agricultural Diversification In The 1990s, Donald Taylor

Economics Staff Paper Series

Agricultural "diversification" is a prominent theme in ASEAN-4 (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand) today. Since formulation of Indonesia's First 5-Year Development Plan in 1969, the four primary concepts guiding the country's development have been intensification, extensification, rehabilitation, and diversification. In the Fifth Plan (1989-94), diversification was shifted up to top priority (Kasryno, et al., 1992, 1; Saroso, 1991, 184). Malaysia's policies for export diversification have resulted in the value added from tin and rubber relative to the total value of primary exports decreasing from 63% in 1970 to 15% in 1990 (Yaacob, 1992, 4). Within agriculture, Malaysia has adopted policies …

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