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Chloride control and irrigation management: A GIS integrated approach to economic feasibility for cotton
(2012-12)
This study estimates the net agricultural benefits of preventing nearly 500 tons of salt per day, sufficient to preclude irrigation or potable water use, from entering the Elm Fork of the Red River near the Texas border ...
Spatial Smoothing of Corn Yield Trends and Robustness of the Impact of Climate Change on U.S. Corn Yields
(2019-07)
In evaluating plans to mitigate climate change, policy makers require estimates of the cost of climate change. One potential cost of climate change is the negative effect that an increase in temperature would have on ...
Essays on production and demand issues in the bovine industry
(2010-07)
Scope, Method of Study, and Findings: This three-essay dissertation seeks to address both production and demand issues in the bovine industry. The first essay assesses the economic effects of bovine respiratory disease ...
Optimal application of swine effluent in Texas and Oklahoma panhandles determined by Bayesian stochastic dynamic programming
(2011-12)
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this study was to determine the most efficient time to apply swine effluent corn production in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle area. The effluent was assumed to be applied to a ...
Essays on African rural development and environmental and natural resource policy
(2017-05)
My dissertation consists of three essays in development economics and empirical microeconomics.
Three essays: Reservoir management; switchgrass land leasing; and its environmental impact
(2012-12)
First essay determines the optimal lake levels for Lake Tenkiller that maximizes the total net economic benefits derived from both marketed and non-marketed uses under stochastic inflows. It was found that for Lake Tenkiller ...
Impacts of permanent and temporary shocks on optimal length of moving average to forecast a time series
(2013-05)
Moving averages are often used for forecasting and the optimal length of the moving average depends on the size and frequency of structural breaks. A new time series model is proposed to describe permanent shocks related ...
Three essays examining the effects of information on consumer response to contemporary agricultural production
(2014-05)
Future agricultural innovation and increases in the food supply may be limited by consumer aversion to food technology and factors associated with the concentration of production. The ability of agricultural innovators and ...
Economics of the Greenseeder Hand Planter, Discrete Choice Modeling, and On-Farm Field Experimentation
(2019-08)
Corn yields in developing countries are lower than in developed countries partly due to planting methods that involve hand dropping of multiple seeds per hill. Researchers from Oklahoma State University (OSU) recently ...
Calendar spread options for storable commodities
(2013-12)
Previous studies provide pricing models of options on futures spreads. However, none fully reflect the economic reality that spreads can stay near full carry for long periods of time. A new option pricing model is derived ...