Proceedings of the 74th Annual Western Orchard Pest and Disease Management Conference, held January 5-7, 2000 at the Imperial Portland in Portland, Oregon.
Proceedings of the 69th Annual Western Orchard Pest and Disease Management Conference, held January 11-13, 1995 at the Imperial Hotel in Portland, Oregon.
Health effects stemming from animal feeding operations pollution in the contiguous United States are analyzed using a 20-year, county-level data set. Several quasi-experimental, potential outcome models are used to estimate the impact of high concentrations of animal units on mortality rates and other health and economic outcomes over a 20-year...
In agriculture there has been a long history of using a levy or an insurance premium to create mutual funds to mediate economic risks to growers due to environmental variability and quarantine pests. In the United States the federal government, through the USDA, continues to underwrite funds (collected by private...