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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Post-Harvest Grain Storing and Hedging with Efficient Futures

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1999
This study simulates whether Kansas wheat, soybean, corn, and milo producers could have profitably used deferred futures plus historical basis cash price expectations for post-harvest unhedged and hedged grain storage decisions from 1985-97. The signaled
Terry L. Kastens, Kevin C. Dhuyvetter
doaj   +1 more source

Are all meats substitutes? A basket‐and‐expenditure‐based approach

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the relationship among animal‐based meat and plant‐based meat alternatives (PBMAs) using a basket‐and‐expenditure‐based choice experiment. In particular, we examine whether animal‐based meat products are substitutes or complements with PBMAs.
Clinton L. Neill, Logan L. Britton
wiley   +1 more source

The 2017 Ming K. Jeang award for excellence in Cell & Bioscience

open access: yesCell & Bioscience, 2018
Two research groups led by Dr. Shui Qing Ye of University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, USA and Dr. Dihua Yu of University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA, respectively, won the 2017 Ming K Jeang Award for ...
Yun-Bo Shi
doaj   +1 more source

The Marketing Performance of Illinois and Kansas Wheat Farmers [PDF]

open access: yes
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Illinois and Kansas over 1982–2004. The results show that farmer benchmark prices for wheat in Illinois and Kansas fall in the middle third of the price range about ...
Aulerich, Nicole M.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Ethnic Conversions : Family, Community, Women, and Kinwork [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
According to the straight-line theory of assimilation, ethnic groups by the third or fourth generation should be entirely assimilated into mainstream society and should identify themselves as Americans.
Kelly, Mary E.
core   +2 more sources

Time management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Adpated from: Making Every Minute Count. Balancing Work and Family Series. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Cooperative Extension Service.; Walker, Doris "Katey".
Walker, Doris K.
core   +1 more source

Determinants of local food producer participation in state‐sponsored marketing programs: Evidence from Missouri

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines producer participation choices considering a variety of potential benefits linked to state‐sponsored marketing programs, using a real choice dataset of farmers in Missouri. Multinomial logit models are employed to predict determinants of farmer enrollment in three tiers of the Missouri Grown local food marketing program ...
Lan Tran, Ye Su, Laura McCann
wiley   +1 more source

A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Migraine Twin Studies

open access: yesPediatric Neurology Briefs, 1998
The influence of genetic versus environmental factors in the etiology of migraine was investigated by studies of two samples of female twin pairs - 154 raised together and 43 raised apart since infancy, in a report from the University of Kansas Medical ...
J Gordon Millichap
doaj   +1 more source

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