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Incorporating flavor into a wheat breeding program
(2023-05)
Wheat is a major cash crop in Oklahoma, accounting for nearly 2.6 million harvested acres in 2020. Many farmers rely on wheat varieties developed at Oklahoma State University (OSU), as these varieties have proven capable ...
Effect of a transitional diet on stocker heifers grazing wheat pasture
(2020-05)
Cattle on wheat pasture require an acclimation period before significant body weight gains occur. Weight loss is often observed during the adaptation period. The effect of energy supplementation while grazing wheat has ...
Resilience of grain storage markets to upheaval in futures markets
(2022-05)
There has been an increase in the volume of long-only index funds in commodity markets as well as a time period where cash and futures markets did not converge. What is the economic impact of these events on storage markets? ...
Batch-burning and grazing: An economic analysis of rangeland management of Oklahoma cow-calf producers
(2023-05)
Cattle production involves making complex decisions that influence producer profitability, the environment, and the beef industry. Rangeland management decisions require cattle producers to select practices that improve ...
Measuring technical and economic efficiency of double cropping systems in the southern Great Plains
(2022-05)
As a result of fragile soils and extreme weather events, crop production in the Southern Great Plains (SGP) is below its potential in comparison to other regions. For the period from 1960 to 2004, the SGP states of Kansas, ...
Consumer choice models applied on a biobased product
(2021-07)
Biobased products are non-food/non-fuel goods derived from plants and other renewable agricultural and forestry materials. Everyday household products made from biobased materials could replace products made with petroleum-based ...
Evaluating consumer survey responses with Identity Theory and impacts of alternative responses to foot-and-mouth disease in a large feedlot
(2020-07)
The first essay investigates consumer survey design. Survey design has evolved from asking respondents for replies they can easily provide a specific answer into considering the cognitive process of an individual. Due to ...
Sugarcane aphid movement model for Oklahoma, weather and geographic effects on sugarcane aphid migration in Oklahoma
(2022-07)
The first paper discusses developing a predictive model of SCA intrusion trajectories for Oklahoma sorghum producers. The SCA survival rates and migration distribution are generated using the temperature, precipitation, ...
Impact of COVID-19 on food assistance requests at a food pantry in Oklahoma
(2022-05)
In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economies and food systems, raising concern for possible increases in food insecurity. This study investigates how COVID-19 affected the number of people served at a food ...
Extension of an equilibrium displacement model: Relaxing the fixed proportion assumption and recovery of shocks under observed equilibrium
(2022-07)
The goal of this research is to extend a conventional equilibrium displacement model (EDM) to one that permits substitution between inputs. The empirical example evaluates economic shocks and their effects on social welfare ...