Data from two states are used for an analysis of the extent to which savings can be achieved through school consolidation. The relationship between per pupil expenditures and enrollment is examined. It is shown that per pupil expenditures for instruction are linked to teachers salaries and...

This paper develops a model of the U.S. sheep industry with monthly data for 1964-1980. Consumption of lamb has decreased rapidly since 1970. Findings suggest that consumers are highly sensitive to changes in lamb prices relative to prices for beef and pork.

Choices between conventional tillage and reduced tillage are not entirely unambiguous in the current state of technology. It thus seems unlikely that reduced tillage will completely replace conventional tillage. Hence, analyses of the tradeoffs between the two tillage systems could provide...

This publication has been prepared as an aid for researchers and for teachers of advanced courses in production economics. Computer graphics is utilized as a highly adaptable tool for discovering shapes of agricultural production function surfaces. The first part of this publication presents...

The purpose of this publication is explore some of the implications of recent work dealing with duality, elasticities of substitution, and translog specifications of production functions for agricultural research. These theoretical developments have a broad-based applicability to research in...