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  • Essays on ethanol-driven corn demand and crop choice

    Creator:
    Marshall, Kandice Kleiber
    Abstract:
    Two essays are focused on crop choice and the growth of corn production in the Corn Belt and surrounding areas. The first essay develops a partially degenerate nested logit model to examine the effect of price islands and local ethanol capacity on corn production and crop mix. The primary data...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    2001 and 2005 Corn Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS), and the 2002 and 2006 Soybean ARMS

  • Essays on conservation policies and agricultural nonpoint source pollution control

    Creator:
    Tanaka, Katsuya
    Abstract:
    This dissertation consists of three papers on agricultural nonpoint source pollution and control. The first paper focuses primarily on agricultural land use changes under alternative conservation policies. The second and third papers address environmental implications of these policies and their cost effectiveness. In the first paper, the effect of alternative...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation