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A Farm Panel as a Source of Income and Expenditure Data

Vincent, Warren H. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1959) 4

. Grove, Earl E. Houseman of Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Wylie D. Goodsell …

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Evaluation of Agricultural Flood Damage by Airphoto Analysis of Flood-Plain Samples

Nobe, Kenneth C.; Dill Jr., Henry W. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1959) 4

The United States Department of Agriculture is cooperating in an interagency study to plan for the future development and control of the water resources of the Potomac River Basin.' One assignment undertaken by the Farm Economics Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, is that of...

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OASIS AN OVERVIEW

In: Agricultural Economics Research (1978) 3

The assembly, processing, and dissemination of economic intelligence concerning agriculture is a complex process in which the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its subdivisions are greatly involved. The role of the Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service in the information process is...

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The Demand for Fertilizer, 1949-64: An Analysis of Coefficients From Periodic Cross Sections

Rausser, Gordon C.; Moriak, Theo F. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1970) 2

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The Role of Economics and Statistics in the USDA

Cochrane, Willard W. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1961) 3

Agricultural Marketing Service, and later under the joint sponsorship of that agency and the Agricultural Research Service. In …

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Farmers' Perceptions and Information Sources: A Quantitative Analysis

Farnsworth, Richard L.; Moffitt, L. Joe - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1984) 1

Using the concept of negentropy and ordinary least squares, this article investigates the role of public and private information sources m forming growers' Yield perceptions Paid private consultants reduced the discrepancy between gamma-distributed actual and perceived Yield distributions,...

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Cost Functions From Cross-Section Dataâ€”Fact or Fantasy?

Stollsteimer, J.F.; Bressler, R.G.; Boles, James N. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1961) 3

functions, much attention has centered lately on the marketing firm. This attention has brought into sharper focus certain … organizational and operating characteristics of plants. With growing interest in the marketing area, the work in the Department … expanded to include cooperative research with several State experiment stations. A major such effort has involved the Marketing …

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The Construction and Use of Causality Tests

Bishop, Robert V - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1979) 4

A modified Sims' test which bypasses the traditional Aristotelian causality can be used to determine the appropriate causal ordering among Important economic variables This test can provide valuable insight into many economic relationships, thereby providing additional information for policy...

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Normative Supply Functions by Linear Programming Procedures

Krenz, Ronald D.; Baumann, Ross V.; Heady, Earl O. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1962) 1

In many analyses of profit maximization, attention is directed to large herds and specialization in milk production. Why then do some farmers persist in keeping small dairy herds even when prices for Grade B milk become quite low? This article shows that even with relatively low prices for milk...

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Optimization of Policy Goals in the Context of a Sector Model

Ballenger, Nicole S.; Norton, Roger D. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1986) 2

This article investigates the possibilities of including policy choices directly into a sector model that simulates an economic equilibrium It uses a mathematical programming framework because these models have wide applicability in agricultural sector analysis The objective function is...

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