This 474-page book provides much greater detail and documentation supporting the book "Science for Agriculture." It is available through 10 university research libraries and the National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD. Second printing 2000.

This paper examines the impact of public and private agricultural research and extension on agricultural total factor productivity at the state level. We test the hypothesis that the composition of agricultural experiment station funding—share of funding from impact of federal competitive...

This paper presents new econometric evidence on state government’s demand for resources to support local agricultural experiment station research.  The econometric model consists of a complete-demand system covering four major resource sources, and it is fitted to annual observations on 48...

The impact of public and private research to agricultural productivity in the US between 1950 and 1982 were assessed using an econometric model. Analysis of US aggregate measures of multifactor agricultural productivity was undertaken using imputation-accounting, statistical meta-function and...

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This paper describes major external changes to the U.S. public agricultural research system over 1988-1999; describes the reactions of the public agricultural research system to the external changes, specifying the innovations that have occurred over the last decade; and draws conclusions about the...

Preface by T. W. Schultz. Under contract with Iowa State Press for a revision, 2004. A 9-chapter book (about 200 pages) that documents the evolution, development, and economic impacts of public agricultural research, especially the state agricultural experiment stations over the past 150 years....

This study presents new estimates of supply and demand elasticities for U.S. multiproduct cash grain farms and estimates of input and output bias effects caused by public and private crop research, extension, and farmers' schooling. The study also shows that the social rate of return to public...