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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"U.S. Agriculture"”.
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Tax breaks in U.S. agriculture : who benefits, who loses?
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1986.
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Is the Share of Agricultural Maintenance Research Rising? Implications for Future Productivity Growth in U.S. Agriculture
Agricultural research is susceptible to research deterioration due to biological, climatic, and economic forces. Research deteriorates as the base conditions it addresses change which leaves the resulting information or technology less effective, efficient, productive, and/or relevant. Maintenance …
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Advances in tortricid systematics and identification (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
… 2 focuses on Tortricidae threatening U.S. agriculture. The resulting resource, Tortricids of Agricultural Importance (TortAI - http://www.tortai.org), is designed to aid in the identification of tortricid adults encountered during domestic surveys and tortricid larvae encountered during …
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Essays on Measuring Climate Change Damages and Adaptation
… degree of damages from climate change in U.S. agriculture, and find that extreme heat is significantly more damaging than linear models suggest. In the second essay, I measure the degree of adaptation to extreme heat in U.S. agriculture using flexible modeling of weather variables and a …
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The impact of monetary policy on the U.S. cotton market
… study concludes that the performance of the U.S. agriculture depends on the macroeconomic developments, such as monetary policy. Because the U.S. agriculture is heavily dependent on foreign markets, the monetary phenomenon, such as the exchange rate, is likely to have a significant impact on …
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To Till or Not to Till: The Question of Economic Efficiency and Tillage Systems in a Sample of Illinois Grain Farms
… feed the nation, but also on the ability of U.S. agriculture to compete in a world economy.
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Evaluation of the importance and magnitude of agricultural maintenance research in the United States
… Hatch Acts. These investments have made American agriculture one of the most productive in the world. Several studies have evaluated U.S. agricultural research. However, few of these studies have attempted to assess the decline in agricultural productivity that would have resulted in the absence …
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Local Food and Economic Development
… within the broader historical context of U.S. agriculture, assesses the empirical evidence for local food thus far, assesses the theoretical arguments for and against local food, and develops a new theoretical perspective to examine local food. This study finds the strongest case for local food …
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Barriers and Bridges to Success: A Mixed Methods Needs Assessment of Texas Small Producers
… producers are celebrated as the face of U.S. agriculture, yet struggle with profitability, capitalization, lack of institutional support, and a host of other issues affecting their perceived and actual success. In this thesis, I use mixed methods to investigate the barriers and bridges to …
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“Procure, propagate, and distribute among the people”: the information services of the U.S Department of Agriculture, 1862–1888
Prior to the establishment of the Department of Agriculture in 1862 and concurrent with its growth and development, farmers had myriad ways of sharing and communicating agricultural information. Some of that information was rooted in experimental practice but much of it was anecdotal and based on …
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The role of interstate trade and crop insurance programs on the U.S. agriculture’s capacity to adapt to climate change
… impact of increasing droughts towards U.S. agriculture. The second essay studies the potential impacts of federal crop insurance program on farmers’ adaptation behavior. I extend the standard Ricardian framework to incorporate crop insurance. This extended Ricardian framework allows me to …
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Evaluating the potential for plant-based meat to capture the U.S. meat market
… meat, and how the U.S. livestock market and U.S. agriculture lobbyists will respond to the new competition. Next, the analysis provides an empirical analysis of one of these factors – the U.S. livestock market’s response to competition from plant-based meat, using an examination of how competition …
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Stewarding chemical control in tall waterhemp (Amaranthus tuberculatus) while foregoing statistical significance
… has become a considerable problem in U.S. agriculture, especially in corn and soy cropping systems. A particularly concerning characteristic of waterhemp is its ability to rapidly evolve resistance to herbicides. While chemical control is only one component of integrated weed management, it …
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High-Dimensional Statistics for Causal Inference and Panel Data
… asymptotic normality. In an application to U.S. agriculture, we show that our estimator captures nonlinear effects of temperature on crop yields more accurately than standard linear models, estimating substantially larger damages from extreme heat. The final chapter further generalizes the …
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International Trade Costs and the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Agricultural Trade
… agricultural trade in detail describing how U.S. agriculture and food trade has expanded along the margins. The first chapter introduces a relatively straightforward, yet empirically powerful, manipulation of the gravity equation. The gravity model has been dubbed the work horse model of empirical …
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A MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING MODEL FOR AGRICULTURE SECTOR POLICY ANALYSIS
… applied to address contemporary issues in U.S. agriculture sector policy. The historical and theoretical development of this type of model is reviewed with particular emphasis upon the incorporation of agricultural producer risk in a mean, variance framework. USMP is solved for equilibrium …
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Property rights and the investment behavior of U.S. Agricultural Cooperatives
… involvement in price and income support of U.S. agriculture. This dissertation seeks to incorporate those factors which uniquely define a cooperative as different from other forms of organizing business activity into a model of cooperative investment behavior. In this study, the set of property …
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Exhaustible resources and technological change in the United States agriculture, 1940-1969
… has played an important role in American agriculture since the beginning of World War II. The rapid rate of growth of population and industrialization in the U.S. has to be met by a rapid rate of growth of food and fiber. Failure to achieve rapid growth in the agricultural sector would …
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The FAIR Act of 1996: Party, Production and Practicality in the Passage of a Farm Bill
… the passage of the 1996 farm bill, the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act (FAIR). Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, I argue that Democrats and Republicans were affected differently by a number of influences. Democratic members of Congress appear to have been influenced …
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Groundwater depletion embodied in transfers and exports of the United States
The United States plays a key role in global food security by producing and exporting agricultural products all over the world. Irrigation from groundwater resources is increasingly important in agricultural production in the US. Groundwater withdrawals for irrigation have nearly tripled since …