The feasibility of quadratic programming as a means of integrating agricultural pricequantity relationships and regional resource availability is demonstrated for a California test case. Estimates are developed for producer's and consumer's surplus, values of vegetables and field crop...

The spectacular nature of many of the breakthroughs In biotechnology has generated considerable publicity and has made demands on agricultural economists for ex ante assessment of potential impacts This article suggests a research agenda for evaluating the impacts of biotechnology on...

Research on the market for irrigation water has been initiated to examine the institutional arrangements that have developed in certain areas to make irrigation water more readily transferable between farmers who have varying seasonal needs for water. This article outlines the manner and extent...

During the gas shortage in the winter of 1973-74, farmers were high on the priority list for gasoline allocations. Under the proposed exchangeable coupon gasoline rationing, this allocative machinery and priority system would be superseded by a coupon resale market. The exchangeable coupon...

The costs of obtaining a given level of accuracy in estimating yields of tree fruit might be lowered by the use of photographs or supplemental information on fruiting potential. A small-scale experiment of this sort is described for peaches and apples. A procedure for evaluating the relative...

As part of the cotton forecasting research reported by Hendricks and Huddleston elsewhere in this issue, intensive studies are conducted in an attempt to make more accurate predictions of the quantity of immature fruit on the plants, as of a given date, which will develop to maturity and...

The relative merits of different methods of measuring volume of retail sales of particular commodities has been a debated subject in recent years. As a byproduct of an experiment in retail store merchandising, a direct comparison of some alternative methods is made in this paper, a matter of...

Fruit and nut production in Oregon and other important producing areas is highly commercialized. Sales of many of these commodities are controlled by Federal marketing agreements to provide for orderly marketing of each year's crop. Officers of grower and processor organizations who are charged...