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Testing The Impact Of Corporate Farming Laws On Hog Industry Growth: A Partial Adjustment Approach, Holger Matthey, Jeffrey S. Royer Aug 1999

Testing The Impact Of Corporate Farming Laws On Hog Industry Growth: A Partial Adjustment Approach, Holger Matthey, Jeffrey S. Royer

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

This paper analyzes the impact of corporate restrictions on the growth of the Nebraska hog industry. It utilizes a partial adjustment model to test the hypothesis that the restrictions hamper the development of the state's hog industry. The results support the argument that the regulations have slowed the growth of the Nebraska hog industry.

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The Potential For Marketing Pork Products With Embedded Environmental Attributes: Results From An Experimental Study, Sean P. Hurley, James B. Kliebenstein Aug 1999

The Potential For Marketing Pork Products With Embedded Environmental Attributes: Results From An Experimental Study, Sean P. Hurley, James B. Kliebenstein

Agribusiness

Environmental issues such as air and water quality related to livestock production currently receive much attention. Potential methods for environmental improvement range from regulation to market solutions. This study looks at consumer willingness to pay for pork products with embedded environmental attributes. Experimental auctions showed that over one-half of the participants (62%) paid a premium, that did not vary significantly between differing regions of the United States. (JEL Codes Q13, Q25)

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The Impacts Of Dairy Cattle Ownership On The Nutritional Status Of Preschool Children In Coastal Kenya, Charles F. Nicholson, Phillip K. Thornton Aug 1999

The Impacts Of Dairy Cattle Ownership On The Nutritional Status Of Preschool Children In Coastal Kenya, Charles F. Nicholson, Phillip K. Thornton

Agribusiness

In many parts of the developing world, the availability of sufficient food—food supplying sufficient daily energy and protein—remains a key challenge for many families, despite substantial increases in total food production in the past two decades. At present there is sufficient food produced to feed everyone in the world, but the available food is neither evenly distributed nor fully consumed. As a result, some 800 million people—200 million children— are food insecure, that is, they lack consistent access to the food required for a healthy and productive life (Pinstrup-Andersen, 1994). The roots of food insecurity and malnutrition are complex, but …

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Impacts Of The Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact On New England Milk Supply, Charles F. Nicholson, Budy Resosudarmo, Rick Wackernagel Aug 1999

Impacts Of The Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact On New England Milk Supply, Charles F. Nicholson, Budy Resosudarmo, Rick Wackernagel

Agribusiness

During the first year of the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact, milk production in the six New England states increased by about 57 million pounds, or about 1.3% of production compared to the 12 months prior to the Compact. Increases in milk production were largest in Connecticut (31 million pounds) and Vermont (21 million pounds), whereas Maine and New Hampshire experienced increases of less than 10 million pounds. Production in Massachusetts and Rhode Island declined by 9 million and 0.4 million pounds, respectively. Because the rate of increase for New England was larger than the US average, the Compact Commission incurred …

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Welfare Differences Between Gross Water Pumped And Consumptive Use As Alternative Policy Control Variables To Meet Aquifer Management Objectives, Osei-Ageyman Yeboah, Ray Supalla, Derrel L. Martin Aug 1999

Welfare Differences Between Gross Water Pumped And Consumptive Use As Alternative Policy Control Variables To Meet Aquifer Management Objectives, Osei-Ageyman Yeboah, Ray Supalla, Derrel L. Martin

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

The welfare cost of using gross water pumped instead of consumptive use as a control variable to meet consumptive use goal was estimated for Southwestern Nebraska. Crop simulation models for corn, grain sorghum, wheat and soybeans were estimated by EPIC. The models were then optimized for profit maximization under each irrigation scenario where groundwater is constrained through successive reductions. The results indicate that the social cost of reducing consumptive use is substantially overstated when using gross water pumped instead of consumptive use as the control variable, with the percentage difference declining as the size of the reduction increases. For example, …

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Non-Parametric Environmental Adjusted Productivity [Eap] Measures: Nebraska Agriculture Sector, Saleem Shaik, Richard K. Perrin Aug 1999

Non-Parametric Environmental Adjusted Productivity [Eap] Measures: Nebraska Agriculture Sector, Saleem Shaik, Richard K. Perrin

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

Traditional total factor productivity [TFP] misrepresents the true change in agricultural productivity to the extent that environmental bads jointly produced with desirable outputs are unaccounted. Nonparametric productivity measures incorporating environmental bads are evaluated for Nebraska agriculture. The results indicate that prior to the 1980's the traditional TFP measures overstate productivity growth while it is underestimated afterwards, reflecting peak use of chemicals.

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National Evaluation Of Weed & Seed, Executive Office For Weed & Seed, National Institute Of Justice Aug 1999

National Evaluation Of Weed & Seed, Executive Office For Weed & Seed, National Institute Of Justice

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

Unveiled in 1991, Operation Weed and Seed represents an ambitious attempt to improve the quality of life in America’s cities. The ultimate goals of Weed and Seed are to control violent crime, drug trafficking, and drug-related crime in targeted high-crime neighborhoods and to provide a safe environment, free of crime and drug use, in which law-abiding citizens can live, work, and raise their families. Weed and Seed, administered by the Executive Office for Weed and Seed (EOWS), is grounded in the philosophy that targeted areas can best be improved by a two-pronged strategy of “weeding” out violent offenders, drug traffickers, …

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Farmland Value Relationships Across South Dakota, Larry L. Janssen Jul 1999

Farmland Value Relationships Across South Dakota, Larry L. Janssen

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

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South Dakota Agricultural Land Values And Rental Practices: 1999, Burton Pflueger, Larry Janssen Jul 1999

South Dakota Agricultural Land Values And Rental Practices: 1999, Burton Pflueger, Larry Janssen

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

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Is Coke The Real Thing? The Pause That Refreshes? Hysterical Blindness On Hysteria In Belgium, Ibpp Editor Jul 1999

Is Coke The Real Thing? The Pause That Refreshes? Hysterical Blindness On Hysteria In Belgium, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article comments on the outbreak of symptoms allegedly reactive to imbibing Coca-Cola in Belgium, journalistic coverage of the outbreak, and the relationship between the two.

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Nafta Intra-Industry Trade In Agricultural Food Products, Bashir Qasmi, Scott Fausti Jul 1999

Nafta Intra-Industry Trade In Agricultural Food Products, Bashir Qasmi, Scott Fausti

Economics Staff Paper Series (1969 - 2017)

The paper focuses on NAFTA's impact on intra-industry and inter-industry trade in agricultural food products. Bilateral trade among U.S., Canada, and Mexico, as well as their trade with the rest of the world during 1990 and 1995 are investigated. U.S. trade patterns for agricultural food products are slowly changing.

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Asymmetric Grading Error And Adverse Selection: Lemons In The California Prune Industry, Jennifer S. James, James A. Chalfant, Nathalie Lavoie, Richard J. Sexton Jul 1999

Asymmetric Grading Error And Adverse Selection: Lemons In The California Prune Industry, Jennifer S. James, James A. Chalfant, Nathalie Lavoie, Richard J. Sexton

Agribusiness

Grading systems are often introduced to address the classic adverse selection problem associated with asymmetric information about product quality. However, grades are rarely measured perfectly, and adverse selection outcomes may persist due to grading error. We study the effects of errors in grading, focusing on asymmetric grading errors-namely when low-quality product can erroneously be classified as high quality, but not vice versa. In a conceptual model, we show the effects of asymmetric grading errors on returns to producers. Application to the California prune industry shows that grading errors reduce incentives to produce more valuable, larger prunes.

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Analysis Of Intersectoral Linkages Between Agriculture And Industry In Nigeria, M I. Abudu Jun 1999

Analysis Of Intersectoral Linkages Between Agriculture And Industry In Nigeria, M I. Abudu

CBN Occasional Papers

This paper uses time series data to analyse the relationship between agricultural growth and industrial performance for the three-decade period 1966 - 1995. Agricultural growth influences industry in many ways. It provides the raw materials needed by industry; it creates direct demand for the output of consumption goods of industries and indirect demand for the output of basic and capital goods industries. Analysing the input-output coefficients, the paper found that most primary and secondary commodity groups have weak backward and forward linkages, while the quantitative relationships between agricultural growth and industrial performance were non-significant, even when lagged. However, the link …

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Winners And Losers In A World With Global Warming: Noncooperation, Altruism, And Social Welfare, Arthur J. Caplan, Christopher J. Ellis, Emilson C. D. Silva May 1999

Winners And Losers In A World With Global Warming: Noncooperation, Altruism, And Social Welfare, Arthur J. Caplan, Christopher J. Ellis, Emilson C. D. Silva

Applied Economics Faculty Publications

In this paper, global warming is an asymmetric transboundary externality which benefits some countries or regions and harms others. We use a simple two-country model to analyze the effects of global warming on resource allocations, the global-warming stock, and national and global welfare.

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Cost-Benefit Analysis And Estimation Of User Fees For The Atakumosa Local Government Village Drinking Water Supply Project, Southwest Nigeria, Olajide Mohamed Damilola May 1999

Cost-Benefit Analysis And Estimation Of User Fees For The Atakumosa Local Government Village Drinking Water Supply Project, Southwest Nigeria, Olajide Mohamed Damilola

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Organic Price Premiums For Grains And Beans Remain High; Grain Outlook, Spring 1999, Thomas L. Dobbs, Jamie L. Pourier, Alan May Apr 1999

Organic Price Premiums For Grains And Beans Remain High; Grain Outlook, Spring 1999, Thomas L. Dobbs, Jamie L. Pourier, Alan May

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

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Water Balance-Related Performance Indicators For International Projects, Charles M. Burt, Stuart W. Styles Mar 1999

Water Balance-Related Performance Indicators For International Projects, Charles M. Burt, Stuart W. Styles

BioResource and Agricultural Engineering

A unique study to examine the impacts of irrigation project modernization was funded by the Research Committee of the World Bank and managed by the International Program for Technology Research in Irrigation and Drainage (IPTRID). The project examined 16 irrigation projects in 10 developing countries, 15 of which have been partially modernized in some aspects of hardware and/or management. Besides developing specific recommendations for donor agencies interested in irrigation project modernization, this project also accomplished the following: 1. A Rapid Appraisal Process (RAP) was developed to quickly (within a week) evaluate an irrigation project to assess what type of modernization …

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Hogs: 1998 Revisited; Cattle: 1998 Revisited, Gene Murra, Gene Murra Feb 1999

Hogs: 1998 Revisited; Cattle: 1998 Revisited, Gene Murra, Gene Murra

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

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Are There Ways To Enhance China's Food Security?, B. Gardner Delworth, Yahui Zhao Feb 1999

Are There Ways To Enhance China's Food Security?, B. Gardner Delworth, Yahui Zhao

Faculty Publications

Chinese officials and newspapers express considerable concern about the country's capacity to feed its huge and still growing population. The rhetoric will be familiar to people in Western countries as a blend of "agrarian fundamentalism" and "Malthusianism." But beyond the official rhetoric, we will argue that reforms in land ownership and irrigation water pricing and management could have highly salutary impacts on agricultural output that could alleviate food shortages far into the future.

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Cash Leasing Alternatives; 1998 In Review -- Dairy, Burton W. Pflueger, Michel Haigh, Donald L. Peterson Jan 1999

Cash Leasing Alternatives; 1998 In Review -- Dairy, Burton W. Pflueger, Michel Haigh, Donald L. Peterson

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

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The World Food And Agricultural Situation - A U.S. Perspective, Clayton K. Yeutter Jan 1999

The World Food And Agricultural Situation - A U.S. Perspective, Clayton K. Yeutter

Clayton K. Yeutter, United States Secretary of Agriculture: Papers

It is a pleasure to be here in Minnesota at this year's Global Food and Agriculture Summit. And it is a special pleasure to share the podium today with lots of long-time friends, many of whom have forever been associated with American agriculture. would like to focus today on what kind of future might be ahead of us all as we contemplate the excitement of entering a new century. As we look back, we can only conclude that the 20th century was mighty exciting too, and assuredly challenging from an agricultural policy standpoint.

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Evaluation Of Subsurface Drip Irrigation On Peppers, Stuart W. Styles, Charles M. Burt Jan 1999

Evaluation Of Subsurface Drip Irrigation On Peppers, Stuart W. Styles, Charles M. Burt

BioResource and Agricultural Engineering

This paper is a summary of two farms that utilized the California Energy Commission's low-interest loan program to facilitate their entry into drip irrigation. One farm is located near Oxnard, California, USA and the other is located near Gilroy, California, USA. Both of these growers farm about 162 hectares (400 acres) in their overall operations and used the loans to purchase subsurface drip irrigation systems for Peppers. Over $4 million in low-interest loans have been made available to California growers from the California Energy Commission (CEC) since 1986. The CEC initiated the loan program for growers to help implement energy …

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The Value Of Additional Central Flyway Wetlands: The Case Of Nebraska's Rainwater Basin Wetlands, P. Joan Poor Jan 1999

The Value Of Additional Central Flyway Wetlands: The Case Of Nebraska's Rainwater Basin Wetlands, P. Joan Poor

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

Waterfowl habitat is a biological resource which is neither bought nor sold in the traditional market sense. Nebraska, which is situated near the center of the North American Central Flyway, contains unique wetland habitat. Recognizing this, resource managers working in Nebraska promote regulatory protection of such areas. This study found that Nebraskans positively value their state's Rainwater Basin wetland region in that they are willing to pay to have it maintained and expanded. In addition, this study demonstrates how this value was estimated and illustrates how such a value can assist in policy decisions regarding habitat acquisition programs.

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Book Review: Pigs, Profits, And Rural Communities, Edited By Kendall M. Thu And E. Paul Durrenberger, E. Wesley F. Peterson Jan 1999

Book Review: Pigs, Profits, And Rural Communities, Edited By Kendall M. Thu And E. Paul Durrenberger, E. Wesley F. Peterson

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

Early in their introductory comments, the editors of this book claim that they “are not political activists and that [they] neither promote nor defend industrial agriculture based on any political agenda” (p. 4). Industrial agriculture, as understood in this book, includes large corporations, vertically integrated firms, multinationals, and anything else that seems to differ from what might be thought of as a traditional family farm. The editors suggest that their goal is to provide objective assessments of one example of industrial agriculture, large-scale hog confinement operations. However, as the introduction progresses, strange things seem to happen to this perfectly sensible …

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Evaluation Of The Proposed Kpa Kiribati Port Authority Organisational Structure For The New Millennium, Moarieta Ientaake Dec 1998

Evaluation Of The Proposed Kpa Kiribati Port Authority Organisational Structure For The New Millennium, Moarieta Ientaake

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Tax Planning And Management Considerations For Farmers In '98, Michel Haigh, Burton Pflueger Dec 1998

Tax Planning And Management Considerations For Farmers In '98, Michel Haigh, Burton Pflueger

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

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Some Current Issues In Agriculture; Dairy Riding High, But Rougher Times Ahead, Evert Van Der Sluis, Donald Peterson Dec 1998

Some Current Issues In Agriculture; Dairy Riding High, But Rougher Times Ahead, Evert Van Der Sluis, Donald Peterson

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

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Pastoral Resources And Their Management In The Sandstone-Yalgoo-Paynes Find Area, Western Australia, A M E Van Vreeswyk, P. T. Godden Dec 1998

Pastoral Resources And Their Management In The Sandstone-Yalgoo-Paynes Find Area, Western Australia, A M E Van Vreeswyk, P. T. Godden

Agriculture reports

This report covers about 94,700 square kilometres of rangelands in the Sandstone-Yalgoo-Paynes Find area of Western Australia. The area lies within 27°S and 30°S latitudes, and 115°30'E and 120°E longitudes and includes the towns of Sandstone, Yalgoo and Paynes Find. The northern, southern, and eastern limits of the survey area are largely defined by the boundaries of the 1:250,000 scale series map sheets.The western limit is the boundary between the pastoral and agricultural area.

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U.S. Farm Policy: Prospects For Crop System Diversity; Proposed Stocker Contract - Cme, Linda M. Dumke, Thomas L. Dobbs, Gene Murra Nov 1998

U.S. Farm Policy: Prospects For Crop System Diversity; Proposed Stocker Contract - Cme, Linda M. Dumke, Thomas L. Dobbs, Gene Murra

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

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Sizing Up The Agricultural Downturn, Donald L. Peterson Oct 1998

Sizing Up The Agricultural Downturn, Donald L. Peterson

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

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