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Essays on horn fly control economics in stocker cattle, stocker cattle producer purchasing preferences, and food insecurity during COVID-19
(2021-12)
Horn flies cause extensive economic loss to cattle. The efficiency of two insecticides to controll horn flies, Corathon® and LongRange®, and the profitabilities that stocker cattle producer could expect to achieve were ...
Role of beef imports in the United States
(2022-05)
Livestock extension educators are frequently asked why the US imports beef when it already produces a large amount of high-quality beef. The typical answer given is that the US exports large amounts of high-quality beef ...
Accounting for attention changes in discrete choice experiments and modeling adverse selection in the cattle procurement market
(2021-07)
This first paper conducts a discrete choice experiment to estimate turfgrass producers' willingness to accept (WTA) values using different logit models and specifications to capture respondents' attention. We first estimate ...
Essays on estimating market power exertion in the U.S. beef packing industry
(2020-05)
The first essay discusses the aggregation bias issue in estimating the degree of market power for agricultural and food industries and explores ways to improve the conjectural elasticity estimates using proper aggregation ...
Discrete stochastic programming to address biomass yield variability and feedstock quality
(2020-07)
While advances in improving biomass yields and conversion technologies will contribute toward the U.S. energy security goals, the lack of a large-scale stable supply of feedstock could limit this biobased venture. Therefore, ...
Oklahoma stocker cattle industry: Structure and function
(2022-05)
Little information exists on the decision making and management of the Oklahoma stocker industry and the economic flexibility of the stocker industry. A survey was conducted in 2017 by the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension ...
Modelling and evaluating strategies to reduce bale handling costs in a cooperative cotton warehouse
(2020-12)
Cooperatively owned cotton warehouses have unique inventory management issues. Unlike some other agricultural commodities, cotton is stored and marketed on an identity preserved individual basis. Unlike other warehouses ...
Implications of book versus tax based patronage in agricultural cooperatives
(2020-12)
Cooperative businesses are taxed under Sub-Chapter T of the IRS tax code. Under that provision, cooperative businesses are allowed to deduct profits distributed to their member-owners (termed patronage dividends). Any ...
Preliminary biological and economic analysis of capsaicin feed additive in feedlot rations
(2022-05)
This research investigates capsaicin feed additive in beef finishing rations to assess its preliminary biological and economic outcomes. A trial was conducted at Buffalo Feeders, LLC located at Buffalo, OK with capsaicin ...
Factors affecting crop insurance use among underserved producers
(2023-05)
Historically, minority producers have been plagued by racial disparities resulting in them settling in areas less suitable for farming and being discriminated against in federal farm programs. In the two most recent Farm ...