This Note explores in more detail whether your program has the characteristics that make it a good candidate for charging user fees or not. Some of the common questions that arise when Extension programs are considering charging fees or increasing them are listed.

Travel costs are unique when included in user fees because of Extension’s promise to provide equal access throughout the state. This Note explores this issue and several alternative ways to handle this.

This Note gives a quick overview of eight Extension Economics Notes and a related staff paper. It has a direct link to each Note.

This study will endeavour to quantify the innovative and imitative aspects of copper-zinc adoption for chosen regions of the State of South Australia. This will be followed by attempts to ‘explain’ any observed inter-regional differences in the estimated adoption parameters. Chapter 2 will...

Suppose that members of a society are accorded status as both economic and political agents. If the polity responds to the same actors for whom economic policy matters, a simultaneity of political and economic determination is introduced. The first goal of the research presented here concerns...

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Introduction: Two recent papers, Delbridge et al. (2011) and Delbridge et al. (2013), have used agricultural trial data from Southwestern Minnesota to compare the profitability of organic and conventional cropping systems. These analyses found that organic cropping systems can earn more on a...