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Use of Direct Marketing Strategies by Farmers and Their Impact on Farm Business Income
Uematsu, Hiroki; Mishra, Ashok K. - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 40 (2011) 1
Direct marketing strategies increasingly have been recognized as a viable business option in U.S. agriculture as they … number of direct marketing strategies adopted by farmers. Then we estimated a quantile regression model to assess the impact … of the intensity of adoption of direct marketing strategies on gross cash farm income. The results show that the …
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Farmers’ Participation in Agritourism: Does It Affect the Bottom Line?
Joo, Hyunjeong; Khanal, Aditya R.; Mishra, Ashok K. - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 42 (2013) 3
Agritourism is an alternative source of farm income. We examine farmers’ participation in agritourism activities to assess the impact of participation on farm household income and return to assets using a large farm-level survey. The results reveal that older, educated, and female...
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Farm Wealth Inequality Within and Across States in the United States
Erickson, Kenneth W.; Moss, Charles B.; Mishra, Ashok K. - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 35 (2006) 2
This paper uses Theil's (1979) entropy-based measure of inequality and farm-level data to examine changes in farm business wealth (farm equity) of farm households. The farms associated with farm households are grouped by state into ten regions of the United States. The Theil entropy measure is...
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Internet Access and Internet Purchasing Patterns of Farm Households
Mishra, Ashok K.; Williams, Robert P.; Detre, Joshua D. - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 38 (2009) 2
The Internet is becoming an increasingly important management tool in production agriculture. Using data from the 2004 Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) and a double-hurdle estimation approach, we explore the adoption of computers with Internet access by and Internet purchasing...
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