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Japan's import demand for Pacific Northwest frozen corn and potatoes

Creator:: Jacobsen, Twila M.
Abstract:: A net shift analysis was used to analyze growth in employment and value added from 1954 to 1982 in SIC 2037, Frozen Fruits, Fruit Juices, and Vegetables. This analysis indicated that the Pacific Northwest dominated the growth experienced in this sector over this time period. Oregon's share of total U.S....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: category for frozen sweet corn was first established in 1976. The duty was 25 percent through 1979, 21.9

The agronomic, economic and social effects of the availability of new weed control treatments to small corn farmers in the North Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica

Creator:: McCarty, Thomas Vere
Abstract:: The North Atlantic zone of Costa Rica is an alluvial plain, whose fairly good soils and warm, extremely wet climate generate serious weed problems in cultivated crops and pastureland. Basic foods - corn, beans, rice and yuca - are important small farm crops. New land is still being opened for...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : THE AGRONOMIC, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS OF THE AVAILABILIT'y OF NEW WEED CONTROL CORN FARMERS IN

Modeling Oregon’s biodiesel subsidies and their potential effects on the Willamette Valley agricultural landscape

Creator:: Siegel, Ryan W.
Abstract:: The beginning of the twenty-first century has seen an upsurge in petroleum prices and an increased concern over greenhouse gas emissions. Consequently, the interest in biodiesel production has heightened. Policy at the Federal level, such as the blender’s tax credit which provides $1 for every gallon of biodiesel blended with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: although subsidies for large-scale corn-based ethanol, wood-based ethanol, and canola-based biodiesel in

Cost function analysis of fruit and vegetable processing in an Oregon cooperative

Creator:: Sil, Jayashree
Abstract:: A cost function characterizes a firm's cost-minimizing behavior. It is defined as a function of the level of outputs produced and the prices of factors which enter the production process. Econometric estimation of a cost function allows one to test hypotheses regarding the structure of cost and the structure of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: inputs and on green beans, sweet corn, and an aggregate of other fruits and vegetables. Hypotheses of

The effects of farm and operator characteristics, knowledge, and attitudes on farm-level improvements in irrigation efficiency in the central Willamette Valley

Creator:: Stoff, Mary Cora
Abstract:: A study was conducted using data collected from a sample of mint and vegetable farmers in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. The study identifies the influence of demographic differences, economic factors and irrigator attitudes on irrigation efficiency. Only two of the 19 characteristics theorized to influence irrigation efficiency proved to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Effects of Farm and Operator Characteristics. Knowledge, and Attitudes on Farm-Level Improvements in

International comparison and evaluation of agricultural productivity growth

Creator:: Rada, Nicholas E.
Abstract:: Long-run food price changes respond to long-run changes in food demand, quasi-fixed and variable production factors, and agricultural productivity. Recent global food-price volatility puts a renewed spotlight on the trends and sources of any agricultural productivity growth. Because food prices’ most critical effects are on human hunger, it is especially...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , and third-largest corn and broiler producer. It has overtaken the U.S. in poultry exports, nearly

Farm and community-level impacts of irrigation water supply reductions : a case study of Malheur County, Oregon

Creator:: Wyse, Barbara J.
Abstract:: Agricultural water supplies are becoming increasingly uncertain in the western United States due to rising demand from competing water users, environmental restrictions on surface water withdrawals due to water quality and endangered species concerns, and, potentially, climate-induced hydrological changes. Since many rural areas in the West depend economically upon irrigated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: effects from the VOID to the other economic sectors in the county. The VOID, like the other irrigation

Information and analysis techniques for making crop selection decisions

Creator:: Bristol, Roger Dale
Abstract:: Twenty managers of large diversified irrigated farms in the Willamette Valley area of Oregon were interviewed about the economic information and analysis techniques they use when making crop selection decisions. Two community college farm management instructors, two agricultural lenders, and two certified public accountants working with farmers were interviewed about...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 1981 Projections Revised 188 26 Sweet Corn Enterprise Records and 1981 Projections 189 27 Bush

Estimating the value of irrigation water transferred to instream flow : A case study of Umatilla County, Oregon

Creator:: Ugrinska, Monika P.
Abstract:: Agricultural water supplies are becoming increasingly uncertain in the western United States due to elevated demands from competing water users, environmental restrictions on surface water withdrawals as a result of the establishment of the Endangered Species Act in 1973, and potential climatic changes. Since many rural communities in the West...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: commercial agriculture in the Milton-Freewater area of northeastern Oregon, look at the effects of selling

Selecting optimum crop rotation

Creator:: El-Nazer, Talaat Y.
Abstract:: The crop rotation decision is important to farmers because of its impact on profitability, financing and risk exposure. This thesis addresses the problem of farm level crop rotation selection under perfect and imperfect knowledge of prices, yields and costs. The problem is addressed by first estimating production functions for irrigated...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: irrigated wheat, corn, potatoes, and alfalfa in terms of annual weather; crop variety; planting and

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Japan's import demand for Pacific Northwest frozen corn and potatoes

The agronomic, economic and social effects of the availability of new weed control treatments to small corn farmers in the North Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica

Modeling Oregon’s biodiesel subsidies and their potential effects on the Willamette Valley agricultural landscape

Cost function analysis of fruit and vegetable processing in an Oregon cooperative

The effects of farm and operator characteristics, knowledge, and attitudes on farm-level improvements in irrigation efficiency in the central Willamette Valley

International comparison and evaluation of agricultural productivity growth

Farm and community-level impacts of irrigation water supply reductions : a case study of Malheur County, Oregon

Information and analysis techniques for making crop selection decisions

Estimating the value of irrigation water transferred to instream flow : A case study of Umatilla County, Oregon

Selecting optimum crop rotation

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