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Costs and benefits of stored rice insect management methods
(2011-12)
Rice quality is important to rice consumers. Insect infestation can significantly reduce the quality, and thus the economic value, of rice. It can also cause quantity losses. Traditional chemical-based pest management uses ...
Essays on residential water demand and consumer preferences for turfgrass attributes
(2015-07)
The first essay determined the residential water demand and the factors affecting water demand for different periods (pre-drought vs. during-drought and summer vs. winter) in Oklahoma City area. Individual household water ...
Economics of household solar panel and wind turbine systems
(2017-05)
Small wind turbines and photovoltaic (PV) technologies are available for purchase and use to provide households with electricity. The objective of this research is to determine the economic consequences of installing ...
Influence of perception, recession and income strata on consumer demand for protein sources
(2018-05)
U.S. Consumers see retail beef products in the meat case labeled as produced with no added hormones (NAH). However, they also see similar labels on pork and chicken products despite the fact that added hormones are not ...
Three essays on the effects of calorie labeling in full service restaurants
(2012-07)
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Production economics of potential perennial and annual biomass feedstocks
(2012-05)
Scope and Method of Study: The first essay determines the lowest cost lignocellulosic biomass feedstock production system for western Oklahoma from among seven alternatives at each of two locations. Field experiments were ...
Incorporating behavioral principles in primary data analysis with application to beer demand
(2017-05)
Recent advancements in microeconomics have resurrected a need for modern economists to grapple with principles of consumer behavior. This dissertation uses the American beer market as a starting place to present three ways ...
Switchgrass as a dedicated energy crop: Fertilizer requirements, land use, yield variability, and costs
(2015-12)
The U.S Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) mandates that 36 billion gallon of renewable fuels be marketed annually (if produced) by 2022 including 16 billion gallons of cellulosic biofuels. Switchgrass ...
Economic approach on allocation of irrigation water under salinity based on different soils for potential irrigated agriculture using the EPIC crop model
(2011-12)
Scope and Method of Study: The objective of this study was to understand the long term effect of using irrigation water with water and soil salinity on cotton yield based on the 15 soil types along the Elm and North Fork ...