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Value enhancement marketing strategies for cull beef cows
(2012-12)
This study compares alternative marketing strategies with the traditional practice of marketing spring-calving cull cows in the fall immediately after weaning. Specifically, this dissertation investigates value-added ...
Three essays on market power in the U.S. cattle procurement market
(2011-05)
This study consists of three essays. The first essay tests the causality between captive supply and cash market price in the U.S. cattle procurement market. Three causality tests, the Granger test, the Sims test, and the ...
Machine learning: A potential forecasting tool
(2017-12)
Technical analysis involves predicting asset price movements from analysis of historical prices. Many studies have been conducted to determine the profitability of technical analysis. A composite prediction is considered ...
Anaerobic digester adoption on animal feeding operations
(2015-05)
The livestock industry may create environmental problems such as nutrient pollution in water bodies and the discharge of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but anaerobic digestion could be a viable solution. In an ...
Value of parsimonious nutritional information, consumer-oriented foods cluster, and predicting food price
(2016-12)
This dissertation focuses on three topics that relate to consumer behavior and the food industry. The first chapter investigates consumers' beliefs about the tastiness and healthfulness of 173 food items in a framed field ...
Three studies on Mexican agriculture
(2012-12)
Scope and Method of Study: This dissertation is composed of three studies aimed to analyze several aspects of the agricultural sector in Mexico including efficiency, agricultural Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the ...
Costs and benefits of stored rice insect management methods
(2011-12)
Rice quality is important to rice consumers. Insect infestation can significantly reduce the quality, and thus the economic value, of rice. It can also cause quantity losses. Traditional chemical-based pest management uses ...
Essays on residential water demand and consumer preferences for turfgrass attributes
(2015-07)
The first essay determined the residential water demand and the factors affecting water demand for different periods (pre-drought vs. during-drought and summer vs. winter) in Oklahoma City area. Individual household water ...