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Economic study of alternative best management practices for swine effluent application to corn in semiarid climate
(2004-12)
Scope and Method of Study: The intent of this study was to analyze the economic implications of alternative irrigation systems (subsurface drip water irrigation and center pivot sprinkler irrigation) in Texas County, ...
Anaerobic digester adoption on animal feeding operations
(2015-05)
The livestock industry may create environmental problems such as nutrient pollution in water bodies and the discharge of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but anaerobic digestion could be a viable solution. In an ...
Consolidation and market power in the U.S. beef processing industry
(2006-07)
Scope and Methods of Study: This study contains two essays. The purpose of the first essay was to separate processors' potential market power from retailers' potential market power. Pricing rules for processors and retailers ...
Value of parsimonious nutritional information, consumer-oriented foods cluster, and predicting food price
(2016-12)
This dissertation focuses on three topics that relate to consumer behavior and the food industry. The first chapter investigates consumers' beliefs about the tastiness and healthfulness of 173 food items in a framed field ...
Three studies on Mexican agriculture
(2012-12)
Scope and Method of Study: This dissertation is composed of three studies aimed to analyze several aspects of the agricultural sector in Mexico including efficiency, agricultural Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the ...
Essays on business location, recruitment, and the role of evaluations in the university classroom
(2008-07)
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of the first essay is to determine the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on location decisions of U.S. confectionery manufacturers using county level data from 1993 ...