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Opportunities for enhancing the Texas food processing industry
(1992)
State governments are concerned with their economies since the condition of an economy determines residents' standard of living. Therefore, state governments are interested in strategies for strengthening their economies. ...
Risk efficient cropping strategies and farm survival : Texas Trans-Pecos
(1987)
Large accrued debt levels as well as changes in government farm program income support levels insure an ongoing struggle to survive for farm firms in the Texas Trans-Pecos. Relying almost totally on deep groundwater supplies ...
Tactical and strategic planning for rangeland resource use : an optimal control approach
(1986)
This inquiry addresses the need for a grazing optimization framework to include nonstationary effects of grazing due to over or under utilization (with respect to a steady state stocking rate of 9 acres./amu). The mechanism ...
Defining efficient commercial loan portfolios for regional and multi-regional lenders
(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 ...
A regional adjustment model to estimate the economic implications of declining groundwater in the High Plains
(1978)
The Northern High Plains of Texas and Western Oklahoma has experienced rapid economic development due primarily to the development of groundwater for irrigation. Prior to irrigation development, this area of Texas and ...
Hunting lease and characteristic demand : a conceptual and empirical hedonic-travel cost approach
(1989)
The growing need for recreational hunting has placed an increasing pressure on public land. Especially in Texas, where over 95% of the land is privately owned, lack of public deer range is well manifested. As a result, a ...
Texas Coastal Bend grain sorghum producers' fertilizer decisions under uncertainty
(1985)
Optimal (profit and utility maximizing) fertilizer levels are computed based on normative decision guides developed from experimental data on grain sorghum yield/fertilizer levels over an eight year (1977-1984) period, as ...
Measurement of Texas livestock capacity and its effect on the Texas economy : an application of quadratic input-output analysis
(1980)
The ability of the Texas agricultural production sector to provide food and fiber products at reasonable prices to a growing population has always aroused concern among Texas consumers. With retail livestock product prices ...
The Texas bay shrimp industry : a description and management model
(1980)
The bay and gulf waters of Texas are being subjected to ever greater levels of fishing effort, and these pressures are contributing to an accelerating conflict over use of the shrimp resource in these waters. The major ...
An economic analysis of potential agricultural adjustments in Reeves County, Texas: A mathematical programming approach with both micro and macro models
(1972)
The objectives of this study were to ascertain the costs of producing various crops and livestock enterprises in Reeves County, Texas and to determine through appropriate analytical techniques, optimum production strategies ...