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Food Pantry's Contribution Towards Reducing the Needs-Gap
(2019-05-01)
This research estimates the contribution of a local food pantry's food assistance program in helping lower-income households. The assistance provided is measured by the extent to which it closes households' needs-gaps, ...
Assessing the Rate of Success of Alternative Farm Transition Strategies
(2019-05-01)
Research suggests only 30 percent of family owned businesses successfully transfer from the founding generation to the second generation. These success rates continue to decline when transferring to subsequent generations. ...
RI-PRF Crop Insurance Program Design
(2019-07)
The Rainfall Index Pasture Rangeland, and Forage (RI-PRF) crop insurance program insures revenues for producers based on rainfall, a single peril. This thesis looks for ways to improve the design of the program as well as ...
Comparative analysis of expected utility of futures, options, and livestock risk protection insurance: Which hedging tool is desirable for small, medium, or large sized feeder cattle producers whose farms are low, average, or high management risk
(2019-12)
Feeder cattle producers have multiple tools available to mitigate price risk. Few use these tools, with a common reason set of reasons being lack of knowledge and quantity requirements that do not match actual production. ...
Disaggregating Beef Demand: Data Limitations and Industry Perspectives
(2019-05-01)
The United States beef industry contributes nearly $70 billion (Industry Statistics, 2019) to the American economy and provides over 27 billion pounds of product each year (LMIC, 2018). The aim of this research was to ...
Source Differentiated Beef and Soybean Import Demand in China
(2019-07)
Firstly, this study used a Source Differentiated Linear Approximated Almost Ideal Demand System (LA/AIDS) model to estimate beef import demand in China. The conditional price and expenditure elasticities of demand are ...
Optimal beef cow stocking rates in the U.S. Southern Plains
(2019-12)
This research investigates optimal beef-cow stocking rates under common drought management scenarios in the U.S. Southern Plains. An Angus spring calving herd utilizing native range forage and hay was modeled. The relationship ...