Supplemental class materials links for the Debertin books available through ageconsearch.

econfoodag.pdf is 620 color slides arranged in 17 chapters; bweconfoodag.pdf is set up for printing on a black-and-white printer two-to-a-page

The March, 2015 pdf version is recently-edited from a paper written in the late 1980s. A scanned copy of the paper as written in the late 1980s is also available for download. Students who wish to use their math skills to verify each equation and elasticity calculation may wish to download both...

I taught AEC 620, Advanced Production Economics, every year between 1974, when I arrived as an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky, to 2012, when I retired. The following publication is one of the early sets of class notes I used in the course, dating from 1978 set up as an early...

This paper investigates some applications of high-resolution, three­ dimensional PC-based computer graphics to research and education in agricultural production economics. Examples illustrate issues in the identification of stages of production for the multifactor case; special cases in which...

Much of the theory of the firm in product space is not nearly as well developed as the theory of the firm in factor space. For example, both general and agricultura1 economists have devoted considerable effort to developing functional forms representing production processes in factor space, but...

The objective of this paper is to examine the responsiveness to price incentives of petroleum exploration, the generation of proven reserves and the production out of reserves in the United States. First, a theoretical framework of oil extraction and supply is developed. Next, an econometric...

This study suggests that demand management through pricing policies can be used to solve water supply problems. A demand function for water was developed using cross-sectional water data. The demand function was used in a simulation analysis to determine reservoir capacity needed to supply water...

This paper develops an econometric model of petroleum discovery and extraction. Impacts of three selected price policies for petroleum are analyzed with the model. Higher oil prices do encourage additional domestic oil exploration and extraction.

Interest in sustainable agriculture probably had its roots in the concept of sustainable development. There exist no agricultural production technologies or farming systems that are environmentally benign. The question thus becomes "what is sustainable and what is not?" The two underlying themes...