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Economic contribution and impact analysis of the 2019 flood's disruption of the Oklahoma-McClellan-Kerr Navigation System
(2021-05)
Record flooding in spring 2019 caused Oklahoma’s inland navigable waterways to close. Closure disrupted the supply chains of agricultural and manufacturing industries for months, causing economic loss in other industries ...
Spatial patterns in hard red winter wheat quality and basis
(2021-07)
Chapter I:
Whole farm experimentation: Making it profitable
(2022-12)
The first essay considers Bayesian Kriging (BK), which provides a way to estimate spatially varying coefficient regression models where the parameters are smoothed across space. The problem is that previous methods are too ...
Analysis of African Swine Fever consequences on rural economies and smallholder swine producers in Haiti
(2022-05)
African Swine Fever (ASF) causes high mortality, and often results in strict culling policies for affected pigs and international market restrictions. It took more than 25 years for swine inventories in Haiti and the ...
Impact of aging and underemployment on income disparity and professional networks and technology adoption
(2022-12)
The first paper examines how aging and underemployment affect household income and household income disparity between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. A three-step regression analysis was conducted to estimate ...
Designing a beef traceability system viewed favorably by cow-calf producers
(2021-05)
Most beef in the US is not traceable in that beef sold at the grocery store cannot be traced back to the farm where the live animal was raised. Traceability could provide many benefits to the beef industry but is often ...
Analyses of market power for us and international beef markets
(2022-07)
This dissertation expands the conventional NEIO model by imposing the theoretical restrictions and proposes a method for measuring the degree of rivalry in contested markets.
Intertemporal change in cost efficiency and its determinants using a base period approach: An evidence from Korean rice farms
(2022-07)
The objective of our study is to propose a procedure for intertemporal comparison of technical and cost efficiencies across years. The procedure measures the efficiency change while excluding the frontier shift effect using ...
Borrower perceptions of additional lender services: An Oklahoma AgCredit example
(2023-05)
Customer retention and attraction are common concerns in the financial service industry but are acute concerns for farm credit associations, given competition from commercial banks. Not only do agricultural lenders face ...
Three essays on rural health economics
(2022-07)
Rural hospitals in the U.S. have been struggling financially for the past few decades. The increased number of rural hospitals in financial distress has led to an acceleration in rural hospital closures. Rural hospital ...