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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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Agricultural firm resilience to disasters domestically and abroad: Applications in animal health
(2022-12)
Agricultural industries operate within a world of uncertainty, volatility, and risk. The degree to which an industry successfully responds to and recovers from exogenous events is dependent on industry resilience (Zolli ...
Combining two sampling methods, Bayesian multilevel modeling, and build-maintenance soil phosphorus
(2022-07)
Chapter I: Sometimes two measurements are available to collect soil information: a low-cost noisy measurement and an accurate expensive one. For example, soil testing in a laboratory is expensive and accurate. On-the-go ...
Whole farm experimentation: Making it profitable
(2022-12)
The first essay considers Bayesian Kriging (BK), which provides a way to estimate spatially varying coefficient regression models where the parameters are smoothed across space. The problem is that previous methods are too ...
Impact of aging and underemployment on income disparity and professional networks and technology adoption
(2022-12)
The first paper examines how aging and underemployment affect household income and household income disparity between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. A three-step regression analysis was conducted to estimate ...
Analyses of market power for us and international beef markets
(2022-07)
This dissertation expands the conventional NEIO model by imposing the theoretical restrictions and proposes a method for measuring the degree of rivalry in contested markets.