1981 Annual Meeting, July 26-29, Clemson, South Carolina

Fourier analysis is used to forecast weekly hard red spring wheat prices 25 weeks into the future. This procedure applies sine and cosine functions fitted to historical p [...]

That farmers impose uncompensated costs on other members of the society is not news. The list is familiar: water quality impaired by eroded soil, fertilizers and pesticid [...]

Spain has traditionally been an agricultural producer of some import and rapid agricultural development of the past two decades has placed it among world and European lea [...]

Total United States production of watermelons was 22,606 thousand cwt. in 1980, of which Florida produced 7863 thousand cwt. (34.8 percent). The total value of United Sta [...]

This report attempts to identify the contributions of technology and weather to soybean yield variation for the period 1965 to 1979 in the Corn Belt Region. Technology va [...]

THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN CHARACTERIZED BY A MASSIVE EXODUS OF PEOPLE FROM THE RURAL AREAS TO THE CITIES. FOLLOWING WW II, 'MEM [...]

Since the mid-1960's there has been a shift in the composition of tractor horsepower purchases. Models of annual demand were estimated for the 1950-78 time period. Signif [...]

The CAP has always been controversial, but so far has survived serious challenge. However the forces of conservatism and of change are now locked in mortal combats. The n [...]

Risk is incorporated into an annual farm-planning model using the MOTAD framework. The availability of on-farm storage is an important and often forgotten resource constr [...]

Using farm data, this study estimates the relationship between income and variability of income. The affect of diversification and other farm characteristics on income va [...]