Written for presentation at the 2011 ASABE Annual International Meeting Sponsored by ASABE Gault House, Louisville, Kentucky August 7 – 10, 2011

University of Minnesota, Agricultural Experiment Station, Scientific Journal Series Paper No. 10,188.

Field of study specializes individuals’ human capital in ways that might be either substitutable or complementary to technological change. We study changes in the earnings distribution of the college-educated population between 1993 and 2010 using the National Survey of College Graduates....

CONTENTS Page Market Distribution, by L. D. H. Weld 1 The Marketing of Live-Stock Products in Minnesota, by K. F. Warner 15 Cooperative Potato Marketing in Minnesota, by 0. B. Jesness 39 The Marketing of Minnesota Poultry, by S. H. Thompson 57 Milk Distribution in Minneapolis and St. Paul, by W....

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Contents: The Beginnings: 1886-1900; Two Strands of Development: 1900-1918; The Explosive Years: 1918-1928; The Jesness Era: 1928-1957; New Faces and New Approaches: 1957-1971; Maturity Without Stagnation: 1971-1979; Minnesota as a Microcosm of the Profession; University of Minnesota Faculty in Agricultural Economics,...

Contents: Agricultural and Applied Economics at Minnesota in 1979; Rekindling the International Focus: 1979-84; An Increase in State and Local Focus, 1984-1990; Changing Faculty and Programs, 1990-1998; Applied Economics at the Turn of the Century (1998-2000); University of Minnesota Faculty in Agricultural...

Few institutions puzzle outsiders as much as the modern university. Even insiders may not grasp the primal essence of its life and behavior. The sheer size and diversity of many universities defeats orderly consideration. We adopt crude simplifications or, worse, numbing obfuscation. This is...