Recently added articles from Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics:
Penelope (Penny) L. Diebel: WAEA President, 2008-2009
Dec 01, 2008; ... Penelope (Penny) L. Diebel is associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Oregon State University's off-campus program, OSU Agriculture at EOU. Penny received a B.S. (1983) in Outdoor Recreation Management and an M.S. (1986) in Agriculture and Natural Resource ...
Ethics and Agriculture: A Teaching Perspective
Dec 01, 2008; ... Ethics and agriculture is a complex debate, but one in which agricultural economics students must be prepared to participate. There are many links between economics and ethic or moral philosophy. Classroom teaching tends to focus on discussion of issues involving behavioral ethics and disregards ...
Influence of Climate Variability on the Market Price of Water in the Gila-San Francisco Basin
Dec 01, 2008; ... Emerging water markets in the western United States have slowly developed as usage patterns have changed over time. This article develops an econometric model for the Gila-San Francisco Basin. Results indicate the market price of water has risen in response to drought and market conditions ....
Spatio-temporal Risk and Severity Analysis of Soybean Rust in the United States
Dec 01, 2008; ... Soybean rust is a highly mobile infectious disease and can be transmitted across short and long distances. Soybean rust is estimated to cause yield losses that can range between l%-25%. An analysis of spatio-temporal infection risks within the United States is performed through the use of a ...
Carcass Quality and Genetic Selection in the Beef Industry
Dec 01, 2008; ... A lack of high-quality beef has been cited as one of the primary factors for the 50% decline in beef demand from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s. Cattle producers argue that appropriate price premiums are not sufficient to encourage the production of high-quality cattle. Although some ...
The Role of Price Risk Management in Mitigating Fed Cattle Profit Exposure
Dec 01, 2008; ... This study identifies the amount and origin of risk in cattle feedlot operations through the use of simulation techniques. Ex ante profit risks are evaluated under scenarios with varying levels of price protection through the use of forward pricing. An empirical probability density function is ...
Adoption and Abandonment of Precision Soil Sampling in Cotton Production
Dec 01, 2008; ... Adoption of precision agriculture technology has received considerable attention, but abandonment has received little. This paper identifies factors motivating adoption and abandonment of precision soil sampling in cotton. Younger producers who farmed more cotton area, owned more of their ...
JARE Editors' Report: Presented at WAEA Annual Meeting Big Sky, Montana June 25, 2008
Dec 01, 2008; ... This report covers volume 32 (2007) and the first two issues of volume 33 (2008), published under the editorial team of David Lambert, George Davis, and Douglas Larson (LDL). The number of articles and total article page counts are listed in table 1. The total page count for volumes 32 and 33 ...
Trait Stacking, Licensing, and Seed Firm Acquisitions in Genetically Modified Grains: A Strategic Analysis
Dec 01, 2008; ... Commercialization of genetically modified (GM) traits leads to interesting strategic questions for agbiotechnology and seed firms. The purpose of this study is to evaluate equilibrium strategies of agbiotechnology and seed firms regarding commercialization of GM traits. Two game theory models ...
Implicit Value of Retail Beef Product Attributes
Dec 01, 2008; ... To identify the value consumers place on observable characteristics of fresh beef products, primary data were collected on over 1,350 packages of beef from 66 randomly selected grocery stores located in three metropolitan areas-Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Denver, Colorado. Estimated ...
WAEA 2007 Award Winners
Dec 01, 2008; ... Outstanding Master's Thesis NATHAN HENDRICKS, "Estimating Irrigation Water Demand with a Multinomial Logit Selectivity Model," Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University. JEFFREY M. PETERSON, Advisor Understanding irrigation water demand is vital to ...
What to Choose? The Value of Label Claims to Fresh Produce Consumers
Dec 01, 2008; ... We examine consumer response to label information using a hypothetical choice experiment on red leaf lettuce attribute bundles. Using survey responses, several mixed logit models with random parameters and varying correlation assumptions are estimated that provide estimates of marginal utilities ...
Contribution of Wheat Diversity to Total Factor Productivity in China
Dec 01, 2008; ... The impact of wheat diversity on the productivity of wheat in China is examined using total factor productivity (TFP) and an instrumental variable approach. TFP in seven key wheat-producing provinces in China shows significant, though variable, growth for all provinces during the period ...