Browsing University Undergraduate Research Fellows (1968–2012) by Department "Agricultural Economics"
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(1983)The nature of the problem of safely investing bank's loanable funds is examined. A possible means of solving some of the difficulties, credit scoring, is proposed with the objectives it shall meet. Credit scoring literature ...
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(1985)The headlines appearing in many rural-based newspapers in recent months have chronicled the economic squeeze that is forcing many farmers and ranchers to leave the agricultural sector. This study discusses many problems ...
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(1980)The purpose of this study was to determine if cross-hedging grain sorghum on corn futures contracts could reduce price variation to an individual grain sorghum producer. Weekly cash grain sorghum prices and cash corn ...
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(1983)This study involves a threefold approach to the real demand for loan funds at Federal Land Banks and Production Credit Associations: (1) determination of a conceptual model, (2) estimation of the corresponding statistical ...
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(1996)The 1996 Farm Bill, signed into law on April 4, is a significant departure from the focus of modem and historical domestic farm policy. As a provision of the proposed Federal balanced budget, it will deregulate income ...
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(1998)The following is an attempt to measure the economic effects of bringing CRP land back into production in the Texas Panhandle. I will focus on 60 counties within this region. In the research, I have used an input-output ...
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(1985)Farmers and ranchers are annually confronted by a variety of investment and financing decisions that will affect the financial structure and performance of their firm for many years to come. The purpose of this project is ...
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(1979)Due to rising cost of inputs and chemical resistant insects, cotton farmers in Texas are faced with increasing economic pressure. It is imperative that new cotton production systems be developed, if Texas cotton farmers ...
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(1987)The high profitability of frozen concentrated orange juice as a commodity sold to the United States, has recently introduced new developments in the marketing and distribution of the product. New methods for the transportation ...
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(1985)Chapter I is an introductory chapter which provides a brief overview of the thesis. It is in Chapter II where the thesis begins to take form. Chapter II provides an analysis of the basic structure of the income statement, ...
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(1985)This study involves the analysis of cattle embryo transfer and feeding as tax-sheltered investments. It includes the discussion of agricultural tax policy, tax shelter concepts, embryo transfer and cattle feeding procedures, ...