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Creator:: Meunier, Patrick
Abstract:: The main objective of this research was to compare the demand and the price of hard red winter (HRW) wheat and white wheat (WW) to determine the similarities and the differences between these two wheat classes. Using Granger's causality test with average monthly cash prices and daily Free on Board...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: cooperative extension service of WSU published Factors Determining the Price of White Wheat in the Pacific

Creator:: Simone, Mark V.
Abstract:: Wheat is a major agricultural product in the Pacific Northwest (PNW). The market class primarily grown in the region is Western White (WW) wheat. An important export market for PNW wheat producers is the Asian Pacific Rim (APR), due to its proximity and economic growth. Agronomic research has been conducted...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Johnson, Martin A.
Abstract:: West Coast fruit cooperatives working together in joint-venture trading companies may well lower the prices of their fruit for export through economies of scale. However, present and future foreign demand for American fruit may constrain any economies of scale that are realized in joint-venture agreements. The major objective of this...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: plausible, close substitutes for the American fruit. By extension, other fruit may also be substitutes. It

Creator:: Nofziger, Sharon Dianne
Abstract:: The purpose of this thesis is to present the results of a study of the impacts of the Conservation Reserve Program, Title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985, on the economies of small communities located in Gilliam, Morrow and Umatilla Counties in Oregon. These counties are representative of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Extension Service, for his support in the research for this thesis and to Dr. Carl O'Connor and Dr

Creator:: Cabeza, Felix
Abstract:: This study analyzes the impact of the 1980 Staggers Rail Act (SRA) on Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana) wheat transportation. A minimum cost uncapacitated transshipment network flow model is employed to simulate the origination and destination pattern of grain flows before (1977) and after (1985) the SRA. The...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Gonarsyah, Isang
Abstract:: The U.S. white wheat industry relies heavily on export markets. Since the early 1960s these markets have been geographically concentrated in a few countries in Asia. This suggests that developments in a few Asian countries may significantly affect the prospects for U.S. white wheat exports and thereby the economic well...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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