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The Impact of Public and Private R&D on Farmers'Production Decisions: Econometric Evidence forMidwestern States, 1960-2004

Huffman, Wallace E.; Ming, Fan Xing; Schuring, Jessica - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010

The objective of this paper is to identify the impact of public and private agriculturalresearch on multi-output multi-input profit maximizing decisions of Midwestern farmers. The mainhypothesis is that investments in public and private R&D shift outward the supply curves for cropand livestock...

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Household Production Theory and Models

Huffman, Wallace E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010

The chapter focuses on household production theory and models for non-agriculturalhouseholds, largely in developed … from household production theory for a household input demand system fitted tounique data on the US household sector over …

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Organic Crop Prices, or 2x Conventional Ones?

Singerman, Ariel; Lence, Sergio H.; Kimble-Evans, Amanda - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010

Cointegration is tested between organic and conventional corn and soybean markets in severallocations throughout the U.S. using a unique data set. Organic prices are found to behave likejump processes rather than diffusions, and Monte Carlo methods are developed to computeappropriate critical...

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Demand for Crop Insurance by Organic Corn andSoybean Farmers in Three Major Producing States

Singerman, Ariel; Hart, Chad E.; Lence, Sergio H. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2010

about their demographic characteristics, production and pricerisk management strategies, yields and losses, and crop … conventionalmethods of production so as to quantitatively determine the differential production riskassociated with organic production … according to theiridiosyncratic production risks, rather than the arbitrary 5% blanket premium surchargecurrently in use.[...] …

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Patience Cycles

Barnett, Richard; Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Puhakka, Mikko - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2009

There is a large body of evidence supporting the notion that a) those who grow up to be patient(forward-looking) do better in life compared to those who do not, and b) parents can inculcatethe virtue of delayed gratification in their children by taking the right sort of actions. We studya...

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Interactive Blocking in Arrow-Debreu Economies

Xiong, Siyang; Zheng, Charles Zhoucheng - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2008

, especially those with whom the coalition sharesownership of firms, may resort to production-ruining secession. We introduce new …

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Potential Infrastructure Constraints on Current Corn-Based and Future Biomass Based U.S. EthanolProduction

Ginder, Roger - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2007

Rapid growth in fuel ethanol production in the U.S. will create pressure on infrastructure both in the near term and … the quantity of all other grain feedstocks. In the future it is expected that biomass based ethanol production will also … other biomass based feedstocks for ethanol production. Several pilot projects for plant scale production are already in …

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Production and Marketing Characteristics of U.S. PorkProducers, 2006

Lawrence, John D.; Grimes, Glenn C. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2007

all size categories are planning growth over the next three years. Production and marketing characteristics, cost of … production, and plans for the future are reported by size category.[...] …

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Demand for Farm Labor in the Coastal Fruit and SaladBowl States Relative to Midland States: Four Decades ofExperience

Huffman, Wallace E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2007

production of the field crops of corn and soybeans. Texas is a large state with diverse climates and agriculture, which produces …

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Stochastic Blocking and Core Convergence inNonconvex Production Economies

Xiong, Siyang; Zheng, Charles Zhoucheng - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2007

In production economies, the extent to which non-equilibria are blocked dependson specific rules that allocate …. Based on anotion of stochastic blocking, we extend Anderson’s (1978) core convergence theoremto production economies where …

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