Browsing by Subject "Major agricultural economics"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1979)Cattle producers typically react to cyclical prices by increasing the size of the breeding herd as price increases and decreasing it as price decreases. Current decisions to cull and/or replace cows are based on such data ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)Salinity of the waters from the Red River and its major tributaries has virtually eliminated its use for irrigation of agricultural crops in Texas and Oklahoma. A chloride control project has been proposed whereby the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)The United States has maintained a sugar import quota since 1982. This policy, while supporting U.S. producer prices and incomes at a high level, has caused consumers to pay more for sugar and has reduced the incomes of ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)This study focuses on the allocation of alternative measures of available funds to broad groups of expenditure categories. These alternative measures are compared against the traditional measure of total expenditure in a ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)Over the last twenty years, Texas cotton acreage has ranged from 4 million to 7.8 million acres. In many years, Texas acreage represents almost half the total U.S. acreage planted to cotton. Because Texas accounts for a ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)Most activities of the rice industry in Taiwan are affected by rice policy. Accordingly, it is important to impose an appropriate rice policy. Previous research indicates that rice policy has had different major objectives ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)Current treatment recommendations for controlling the rice water weevil (RWW) in Texas are based primarily on Arkansas data. Questions on the transferability of that information for Texas conditions, and the controversy ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)This study investigates resource allocation in Sri Lankan peasant agriculture and focuses on dry zone multi-output/multi-input farming systems (Vavuniya district). Investigation is carried out at both farm household and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1972)The general objectives of this study are to identify and analyze the financial practices of rice producers and the structural aspects associated with the rice producing industry of Texas. The current financial interrelations ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)The changing food consumption patterns in the United States in the past several decades have led economists to seek new modeling methods for consumer demand analysis. In order to incorporate socio-demographic variables ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1971)The analysis of production response of grains in the Pergamino area was subject to analysis in a dynamic setting by use of a recursive linear programing model. The model is based on the recursive model developed by Richard ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)The Food Security Act of 1985 (1985 farm bill) provides a structure for farm program administration through 1990. The 1985 farm bill continues the conservative trend in farm programs initiated by its 1981 predecessor. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Benefits transfer is the application of some model of benefits estimation from one site for which data exists to a completely unrelated site for which no data exists. Researchers recognize the need to address the t feasibility ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1979)The impact of alternative management schemes on the shrimp fishery of the eastern Gulf of Mexico is analyzed using a simulation model. The model integrates biology and economics, simulating the population dynamics and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)The objective of this study was to develop an econometric simulation model of the U.S. financial sector that emphasizes the linkages between the financial sector and the farm sector. Demand and supply equations for eight ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1978)This study evaluates price forecasting models for manufacturing beef in the U.S.A., using a range of forecasting methods. Specific objectives were directed at: (1) comparing the ability of a range of forecasting techniques ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1969)This study was designed to examine the relationship associated with average per unit production costs and utilization of plant size, and to determine the relationship between plant sizes and average per unit production ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)During the 1980's many areas of the United States experienced financial stress which affected lending practices and portfolios. Some local borrowers were faced with closed or taken-over banks. Lenders were also faced with ...