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This analysis compares net returns of conventional and alternative agricultural cropping systems in northeast Kansas, with and without government commodity programs. The highest net return is consistently from the alternative system, wheat/clover-sorghum-soybeans. Sensitivity analysis reveals...
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This study investigates nonparametrically the optimizing behavior of a sample of 289 Kansas farms under profit-maximizing and cost-minimizing hypotheses. The results do not support strict adherence to either optimization hypothesis. However, evidence against cost-minimizing behavior seems to be...
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agribusiness firms. To compete in this environment, agricultural cooperatives should invest substantially in long-term activities … investment constraints: a) the free rider problem, b) the horizon problem, and c) the portfolio problem. Empirical analysis … traditional co-operatives characterized by vaguely-defined property right structures. Agribusiness co-operatives in the European …
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This paper investigates agribusiness cooperatives' reliance on patron demand deposit accounts (PDDAs) and regional … securities. Supply cooperatives are most likely to show investment in other cooperatives as a high percentage of total assets …
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A mathematical programming model with estimated nonlinear water response functions is used to explore the allocation of limited ground water to flood irrigated corn, flood-irrigated grain sorghum, and dryland sorghum in western Kansas. Results suggest that as ground water availability decreases,...
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