2004 Annual meeting, August 1-4, Denver, CO

Two stage Discrete Sequential Stochastic Program is employed to investigate the farm adaptation under global climatic change. Multiple sources of production risk and adap [...]

In this paper we consider different strategies for implementing a payment for environmental services (PES) program to mitigate deforestation in Mexican common property fo [...]

Recently, financial assistance to farms has been widely under scrutiny. Agricultural assistance has an important impact on farmers' production decisions and those decisi [...]

This study assesses quantitatively the economic incentives for firms to adopt food safety controls and the potential impact of a number of firm and market-specific charac [...]

A math program is used to examine an integrators problem of assigning broiler growers into settlement pools. The integrator varies the size and frequency of flock placem [...]

This paper proposes a nonparametric bias-reduction regression estimator which can accommodate two empirically relevant data environments. The first data environment assum [...]

Institutions are challenged to increase the quality of education and the quantity of graduates in light of unprecedented budget restrictions. One area of potential effic [...]