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Essays on liquidity costs in futures and options markets
(2011-07)
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Examination of alternative fertilizer transportation, warehousing and application systems for agricultural cooperatives
(2004-12)
Scope and Method of Study: The study investigated economic issues relating to fertilizer warehousing and application. The impact of a shift from anhydrous ammonia to dry and liquid (UAN) formulations on fertilizer warehousing, ...
Essays on the economic value of genetic testing in beef cattle production
(2015-12)
Recent advancements in genomic technology have made genetic marker panels for a variety of economically-relevant beef cattle traits commercially available. Although independent validations have found that many of these ...
Import demand for edible oils in India: An application of source-differentiated models, and consumer demand for beef variety
(2008-05)
Scope and Methods of Study: This study consists of two essays. The purpose of the first essay is to estimate the source differentiated import demand for edible oils in India using different versions of the differential ...
Essays on demand for water-based recreation in Oklahoma
(2010-05)
Scope, Method of Study, and Findings: Even though the demand for lake recreation in Oklahoma has increased continuously since the 1950s, few recent studies have analyzed the demand for lake recreation as well as their ...
Preferences for environmental quality under uncertainty and the value of precision nitrogen application
(2009-07)
Scope and Method of Study: The first essay in this models winter wheat producers' choice among potential nitrogen fertilizer application systems that predict nitrogen needs based on optical reflectance data collected from ...
Switchgrass biomass to ethanol production economics: Field to fuel approach
(2010-12)
Scope and Method of Study: Switchgrass has been proposed as a dedicated energy crop. The first essay determines switchgrass yield response to nitrogen fertilizer for a single annual harvest in July and for a single annual ...
Impact of cattle feeding operations on income and employment of the six High-Plains states
(2005-12)
Scope and Method of Study: The study area contained 222 counties from the Six High-Plains States of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. County level two digit SIC data were collected for the period ...