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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Input costs"”.
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Environmental and social influences of foraging behaviour and maternal investment with a note on the mating frequency of the eastern carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica
… and sociality influence the foraging effort input costs of brood production, and that multiple mating contributes to low-group relatedness and non-kin sociality in the Eastern carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica. In Chapter 2, using a natural experiment which included a drought and three normal …
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Microbial Ecology and Horticultural Sustainability of Organically and Conventionally Managed Apples
… conventional crop with regard to fruit yield and input costs. Methods: Microbial populations from phyllosphere and soil environments of apple trees were evaluated using clone libraries of 16S rRNA gene fragments. Clones were sequenced and software was used to assess diversity indices, identify …
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Virginia Logging Business Economic Sustainability Survey Including Perspectives from Across the Forest-based Supply Chain
… or the cost of stumpage, so changes in variable input costs can have large impacts on businesses' economic sustainability. Logging business operational challenges include increasing input costs such as equipment purchase costs, fuel costs, and equipment maintenance and repair costs. The economic …
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Essays On Horizontal Divestitures And Product Market Relationships
… factors such as customer (supplier) switching costs and industry structure tend to play an important role in the wealth effects of customers (suppliers) at announcement of upstream (downstream) divestitures. </p> <p> The second essay of my dissertation investigates this topic by exploring …
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Assessing the Impact of Regulated HACCP Systems on the Efficiency and Profitability of United States Meat Processing and Packing Sectors
… quadratic interaction terms between output and input prices are significant economic parameters that must be included in the estimated cost functions, (4) HACCP can reduce other input costs like labor and carcass used, (5) Firms with HACCP systems are more efficient than those without HACCP …
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Agritech Innovations in India
… water table, degradation of soil, rising farm input costs, and declining income. Agriculture employs about 60 percent of India's population. Hence, it is important to develop technological solutions addressing the needs of smallholder farmers, who account for about 86% of farmers in India. …
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An Economic Comparison of High Tunnel and Open-Field Strawberry Production in Southeastern Virginia and A Joint Estimation of Acreage Planted to U.S. Major Crops
… model to estimate the effect of crop revenues, input costs, and fuel ethanol production on the joint acreages planted to eight U.S major crops (barley, corn, cotton, peanuts, rice, sorghum, soybeans, and wheat). We found a positive and statistically significant marginal effect of the expected …
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Analysis of Policy Reforms in the New Zealand Forest Manufacturing Sector
… cost efficiency as the economy adjusts to higher input costs in those sectors. In New Zealand's case, the adjustments most likely affecting efficiency have been investments in new technologies, which require time to attain maximum efficiency. The results are contrary to other studies that have …
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An analysis of long-term agreements with suppliers in Lockheed Martin's commercial satellite systems division
… parts constitute a majority of a satellite's costs. Lockheed uses contracts and other supply management techniques to stay competitive and to keep satellite, specifically subcontract part, costs under control. Some of the subcontract part contracts are managed under subcontract agreements …
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An estimation of the costs associated with commercial broiler production in Virginia
This study is a summary of production costs of commercial broilers as reported by a sample of producers and contract feed dealers in the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia. The results are presented in the form of estimated costs under stated situations of production facilities, performance, and …
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Enhancing Agricultural Co-operatives and Food Security through Public Policy in Nigeria
… overcoming long-standing challenges around high input costs, market access, education, and adoption of new technologies. To date, however, the results appear to have been underwhelming. This study seeks to understand these policy failures by examining the factors that have shaped the design and …
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ΜΕΘΟΔΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΑΝΑΛΥΣΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΒΙΟΜΗΧΑΝΙΚΗΣ ΠΑΡΑΓΩΓΙΚΟΤΗΤΑΣ
… THIS PURPOSE DIFFERENT MEASURES FOR PRODUCTION INPUTS AND OUTPUTS WERE EXAMINED. THE MODEL SUGGESTED WAS AS OUTPUT MEASURE THE INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION INDEX, AS INPUT MEASURE THE DEFLATED INPUT COSTS WEIGHTED WITH THE RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION OF EACH PRODUCTION FACTOR TO THE TOTAL PRODUCTION COST. …
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The Relationship between Residual Feed Intake, Dry Matter Intake, and Reproductive Performance in Holstein Dairy Cows
Feed represents a large portion of input costs for dairy operations. Decreasing the feed consumed, measured here as dry matter intake (DMI), would therefore be advantageous to producers. However, this decrease could result in cows that do not supply the necessary energy to maintain high production, …
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Optimal economic combination of irrigation technology and cotton varieties on the High Plains of Texas
… declining cotton prices coupled with increasing input costs resulting in tightening profit margins. Many new and improved technologies including varieties and irrigations systems are being developed and used in production agriculture. Producers are adopting these new technologies; however, they …
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Exploring the stimulation of the agri-food system of South Africa through the enhancement of entrepreneurship in agriculture
… land reform policies; a high crime rate; rising input costs such as fuel, fertiliser and electricity; poor infrastructure; increased foreign competition; insufficient access to funding and markets resulting in a high failure rate in agricultural entrepreneurship; and a depreciating and …
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Environmental and Climatic Constraints on Large-scale Camelina Production in Eastern Arkansas
… biofuels in this area, and in particular the low input costs for Camelina, experimental farming began as early as 2013. Farmers in Eastern Arkansas grow soybeans during the summer and fall months, leaving Camelina to be grown in the winter and spring months as a potential second rotational crop. …
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Determinants of access to farm credit by emerging farmers of Thulamela Local Municipality, South Africa
This study seeks to determine the costs and benefits associated with the value addition process at Tshivhase/ Mukumbani tea estate, Vhembe District, Limpopo province of South Africa. Tshivhase/ Mukumbani tea estate was under precarious economic conditions and in its endeavour to revamp its …
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Determinants of Productivity of Small-Scale Holdings of Arabica Coffee and its Supply Response in Kenya: A Case Study of Kiambu County
… coffee output varied based on coffee prices and input costs; and the trends in coffee output by the small scale farmers in the County. Data was collected from 125 farmers for the period 2004 to 2014. A pooled regression analysis based on Cobb-Douglas and Nerlove models was conducted. The …
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How Much Does It Really Cost? A Dynamic Approach to Building Retrofit Costs for Decarbonization Pathways
… of 13,000 residences in Oshkosh, WI to predict costs for homeowners to retrofit their homes with three different upgrade packages. A willingness to pay analysis is then performed with upfront cost predictions from different models, illustrating the impact a more robust cost model may have in …
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Sustainability of Water and Wastewater Infrastructure: Using a Public-Private Partnership Model for Project Financial Assessment
… life. A financial model that can be used to input costs and activities for water and wastewater infrastructure projects will be described. This model was developed as part of this thesis as an adaptation of the financial model for PPP projects in Roads and Highways by the World Bank Group …
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