1987 Annual Meeting, August 2-5, East Lansing, Michigan

This study reports the effects of dietary protein in growing-finishing swine diets on production and carcass characteristics and producer profits. Carcasses are evaluated [...]

The ability to accurately forecast price hinges largely on an ability to reflect both dimensions of price, magnitude and direction, in a forecasting model. This paper dem [...]

Subjective utility values were elicited from Sri Lankan producers of minor export crops. Exponential, quadratic, and cubic utility functions were estimated. The choice of [...]

Prospects for incorporating a currently non-competitive alternative crop into agricultural producers' annual crop mix portfolio are investigated. Through iterative use of [...]

Data on lease rates for transferable output quotas allow implicit, measurements of marginal costs. Regression of these costs on quantities of quota allows identification [...]