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An evaluation of alternative wheat marketing strategies for Pacific Northwest soft white wheat producers

Creator:: Dickens, Mike L.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Producers Abstract approved: . ( \ James C. Cornelius In the Pacific Northwest (PNW) soft

The economic feasibility of off-stream water and salt to reduce grazing pressure in riparian areas

Creator:: Stillings, Amy M.
Abstract:: Properly functioning riparian systems are vital to the health of watersheds and provide an important forage and habitat resource for livestock and wildlife. Riparian grazing management strategies that are economically feasible and achieve environmental goals are needed by resource managers and livestock producers. The objective of this thesis was to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: quantities V j c, represents a matrix of cost coefficients of inputs, x V i x1 represents the quantities of

An economic evaluation of wheat fertilization strategies in North Central Oregon

Creator:: Ahmed, Awadelkarim Hamid
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: + B^C Z ET f)3Biif (3) April where: FSE = fallow storage efficiency (percentage) 812

Consideration of risk in crop selection for Willamette Valley farms

Creator:: Loue, Gbeuli D.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ..................................................... 159 APPENDIX C-i ................................................... 162 APPENDIX C-2

Commodity policies and acreage decisions in U.S. agriculture, 1990-2001

Creator:: Smith, Gordon Lloyd
Abstract:: The Uruguay Round of trade negotiations (1994) initiated agricultural trade liberalization in the form of increased market access, lower export subsidies and limits on trade-distorting domestic support (three pillars, see Burfisher, 2001; de Gorter, Ingco and Ignacio, 2003; Gopinath, Mullen and Gulati, 2004). However, further trade liberalization has stalled largely...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , emerged a literature which focused on price and yield risk in agricultural production (Just and Pope

The concept of diversification as a characteristic of farm structure

Creator:: Russell, K. D. (Kenneth Dale)
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the coefficient of income variation for the surveyed farms. Pope and Prescott (13) and Pope (12

Risk modeling using direct solution of expected utility maximization problems

Creator:: Lambert, David K.
Abstract:: A model of agricultural decision making is developed and tested in this thesis. The expected value of utility evaluated under alternative outcomes is directly maximized in a nonlinear programming model. Two features of the model distinguished it from traditional risk programming models. First, alternative attitudes towards the assumption of risk...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... 111 111-5 Expected Return maximizing Strategies Under Alternative Price Signals - Period C

National health insurance in Taiwan : welfare analysis and hospital competition

Creator:: Chen, Wen-Yi
Abstract:: This dissertation consists of three essays that evaluate various types of health care policies from the social welfare perspective. Chapter 1 introduces the main ideas and framework of this dissertation. Chapter 2 evaluates the new co-payment policy, enacted on July 15, 2005 under Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI). We show...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: request. c&.- W en- Yi Chen, AUth ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my truthfl and deepest

An investigation of the measurement of individual risk attitudes

Creator:: Winter, John R.
Abstract:: Two direct elicitation of utility (D.E.U.) techniques were used to estimate risk attitudes of a group of agricultural producers. The two elicitation techniques used in the study were 1) an error-in-response model using a modified Ramsey method, and 2) stochastic dominance with respect to a function (SDF). The primary objective...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Equivalent, C, of a Prospect (A,B:0.5) for a Risk Averse Individual 20 2.2 Relationship Between

Simulation of cattle cycle demography: cohort analysis of recruitment and culling decisions in the national beef cow herd

Creator:: Nordblom, Thomas L.
Abstract:: This study expresses the hypothesis that historical patterns of national beef cow herd accumulation and liquidations (the cattle cycle) have been related to investment incentive differences across cow ages through time, resulting each year in changes in herd age structure, performance and potentials for adjustment in subsequent years. A review...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: APPENDIX C: SOURCE FILE CODE ................... 271 NO. LIST OF FIGURES TITLE PAGE 1.1 Cow

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An evaluation of alternative wheat marketing strategies for Pacific Northwest soft white wheat producers

The economic feasibility of off-stream water and salt to reduce grazing pressure in riparian areas

An economic evaluation of wheat fertilization strategies in North Central Oregon

Consideration of risk in crop selection for Willamette Valley farms

Commodity policies and acreage decisions in U.S. agriculture, 1990-2001

The concept of diversification as a characteristic of farm structure

Risk modeling using direct solution of expected utility maximization problems

National health insurance in Taiwan : welfare analysis and hospital competition

An investigation of the measurement of individual risk attitudes

Simulation of cattle cycle demography: cohort analysis of recruitment and culling decisions in the national beef cow herd

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