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Background: The National Food and Agribusiness Management Education Commission (NFAMEC whose materials can be found at … December 2006 based upon an extensive three year study of agribusiness management curricula in more than 160 four year programs … internationalize agribusiness management curricula and faculty. A cover story in the Wall Street Journal (December 2, 2002) noted that …
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Our objective is to identify the determinants for success among USDA’s Value- Added Producer Grants (VAPG) program recipients. Business development has become an important program in departments of agricultural economics. Market share was found to be an important determinant of VAPG...
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The objective of this study is to analyze whether a discount or premium exists for coordination strategies in food processing, wholesale grocery, retail supermarkets, and restaurants. Significant premiums are found for food processor and restaurant vertical integration or diversification...
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The objective is to identify significant determinants of performance for food processing firms over the 1992 to 2003 time period, focusing particularly on the issue of family control. Variables measuring firm effects such as asset size, governance, income distribution, and risk are used to...
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Farm supply cooperatives are an important component of the retail agribusiness industry in the United States. The …
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This paper examines the profitability of a balanced sample of 58 North Dakota farm supply and grain marketing cooperatives over the period 2003– 2007. Our findings reveal that increased liquidity tended to allow farm supply cooperatives to operate more efficiently, but reduced the...
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study was to estimate carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions from eight agribusiness retailers in Kansas. Data consisted of … energy inputs from the operation of the agribusiness retailers and the crop land these retailers serve. Carbon emission …
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