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Quantitative Comparison Of Mechanical Harvesting Methods And Conventional Harvesting Methods Of Burley Tobacco In The Southeast, Robert Bailey Elliott
Quantitative Comparison Of Mechanical Harvesting Methods And Conventional Harvesting Methods Of Burley Tobacco In The Southeast, Robert Bailey Elliott
Masters Theses
The purpose of this study is to examine burley tobacco growers decision making processes as they pertain to labor usage during the harvest of their crop and adoption rates of mechanical harvesting technology in order to create a laudable document that could be used by those who disseminate knowledge in agricultural communities. This study sought to compare current conventional harvesting methods to mechanical harvesting methods to determine efficiency and affordability of each of the two methods for the tobacco grower. This study incorporated both survey data and focus group data in order to develop the findings herein. Survey data were …
Identifying Rural Comparative Advantage: Ethanol Plant Location Determinants And Tennessee Value Chains, Lance Andrew Stewart
Identifying Rural Comparative Advantage: Ethanol Plant Location Determinants And Tennessee Value Chains, Lance Andrew Stewart
Masters Theses
As rural areas struggle to adjust to the changing U.S. economy with increasing unemployment, falling wages, and constrained capital markets, economic developers look for strategies to promote economic expansion. Development strategies identifying and evaluating county comparative advantage may offer the promise of economic growth in rural areas. This thesis develops two models whereby county comparative advantage can be empirically identified and evaluated. The study first examines ethanol plant location determinants at the county level, in the contiguous forty-eight United States, the second identified industry clusters within Tennessee at the county level and estimated the extent to which these clusters contributed …
The Application Of The Supervisory Options For Instructional Leaders Framework Within The Fields Of Agricultural, Science, Math, And English Education, David A. Little
The Application Of The Supervisory Options For Instructional Leaders Framework Within The Fields Of Agricultural, Science, Math, And English Education, David A. Little
Masters Theses
The purpose of this study was to determine specific types of supervisory methods used in diverse academic subjects to fulfill personal and professional growth in student teachers and interns. The study sought to compare agriculture, science, math and English teacher educator characteristics and the extent to which the three levels of the Supervisory Options for Instructional Leaders (SOIL) Framework—structured, moderately structured, and relatively unstructured—were used. Surveys were collected from 196 student teacher and intern supervisors throughout the United States. The study revealed that demographic associations appeared to have no bearing on the type of supervisory methods used with the exception …