Search Results - "Foster, Kenneth A."

Agricultural Commodity Prices and Exchange Rates under Structural Change by Hatzenbuehler, Patrick L., Abbott, Philip C., Foster, Kenneth A.

“…That exchange rates strongly influence agricultural commodity prices is a widely held belief. Observed divergences in price and exchange rate correspondence…”
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Consumer Preferences for Verified Pork-Rearing Practices in the Production of Ham Products by McKendree, Melissa G. S., Widmar, Nicole Olynk, Ortega, David L., Foster, Kenneth A.

“…A hypothetical choice experiment was conducted to determine consumers' willingness to pay for three verified production practice attributes (pasture access,…”
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Effects of income and social awareness on consumer WTP for social product attributes by Ubilava, David, Foster, Kenneth A., Lusk, Jayson L., Nilsson, Tomas

“…Recent developments in environmental and animal welfare issues, and the introduction of new production practices may have affected consumer attitudes and…”
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Output and input bias effects of U.S. direct payments by Haque, Samiul, Foster, Kenneth A., Keeney, Roman, Boys, Kathryn A., Narayanan, Badri G.

“…This study examines the national effect of U.S. direct payments on the extent and direction of biased technical change on U.S. agriculture. We also assess the…”
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QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND THE ECONOMICS OF GREEN COFFEE HERMETIC STORAGE by Donovan, Natalie K, Foster, Kenneth A, Salinas, Carlos Alberto Parra

“…Coffee (Coffea arabica L.) is an important agricultural product in Colombia accounting for 16 percent of agricultural GDP. Issues of high humidity in the…”
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Differences in consumer preferences when facing branded versus non-branded choices by Ubilava, David, Foster, Kenneth A., Lusk, Jayson L., Nilsson, Tomas

“…Because brands can signal reputation and serve as proxies for trust, consumer preferences for credence attributes may differ for branded and non‐branded…”
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Analysis of Economically Optimal Nutrition and Marketing Strategies for Paylean® Usage in Hog Production by Li, Ning, Preckel, Paul V., Foster, Kenneth A., Schinckel, Allan P.

“…An approach to the development of the economically optimal dietary concentration of Paylean, duration of the Paylean feeding, and dietary lysine concentration…”
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Economic Replacement of a Heterogeneous Herd by Boys, Kathryn A, Li, Ning, Preckel, Paul V, Schinckel, Allan P, Foster, Kenneth A

“…A model was developed to determine the optimal slaughter weights of pigs with heterogeneous growth raised in a 1,000 head barn and marketed in truckload…”
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Applying cointegration and error correction to measure trade linkages: maize prices in the United States and Mexico by Motamed, Mesbah, Foster, Kenneth A, Tyner, Wallace E

“…The impact of U.S.-grown maize on Mexican markets is a subject of heated debate, and is complicated by limited substitution between white and yellow maize as…”
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A Seasonal Inverse Almost Ideal Demand System for North American Fresh Tomatoes by Grant, Jason H., Lambert, Dayton M., Foster, Kenneth A.

“…Increased fresh tomato trade has prompted a number of trade disputes between the United States, Canada, and Mexico. One precondition of an antidumping dispute…”
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Economic analysis of phosphorus-reducing technologies in pork production by Boland, M.A. (Kansas State University.), Preckel, P.V, Foster, K.A

“…Soil phosphorus levels have increased as pork production has become concentrated. Phosphorus-based manure management regulations for land application have been…”
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A Dynamic Model of Investment in the U.S. Beef-Cattle Industry by Foster, Kenneth A., Burt, Oscar R.

“…Reproduction constraints lead to some a priori information that may prove valuable in econo- metrically modeling inventory dynamics within the U.S. cattle…”
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Assessing the relationship between market factors and regional price dynamics in U.S. cattle markets by Walburger, A.M. (University of Lethbridge.), Foster, K.A

“…Regional live cattle prices are decomposed into two components: (a) a trend common to all regional cattle price series and (b) regional deviations or price…”
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Analysis of green coffee quality using hermetic bag storage by Donovan, Natalie K., Foster, Kenneth A., Parra Salinas, Carlos Alberto

“…Coffee (Coffea arabica L.) value is highly dependent on quality. However, due to high humidity in the Central Andean Ranges of Colombia, where much of the…”
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Effects of alternative hermetic bag storage on fermented and dried cocoa bean (Theobroma cacao L.) by Foster, Kenneth A., Suarez-Guzman, Lina M., Meza-Sepulveda, Diana C., Baributsa, Dieudonne, Zurita, Carlos A.

“…Cocoa beans, derived from the Cacao Tree (Theobroma cacao L.), are a cash crop among smallholder farmers in tropical regions. After harvest and processing,…”
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Estimating Elasticities with the Linear Approximate Almost Ideal Demand System: Some Monte Carlo Results by Alston, Julian M., Foster, Kenneth A., Gree, Richard D.

“…The AIDS model has many desirable theoretical properties but usually it is estimated using a linear approximation. The quality of the approximation to the true…”
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Determination of focal pricing regions for U.S. fed cattle by Walburger, A.M. (University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.), Foster, K.A

“…Concerns over the imperfect market structure of the beef sector arise due to potential price discovery impacts. This study presents an effective way of…”
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Measurement and analysis of agricultural productivity in Colombia by Jiménez, Manuel I., Abbott, Philip, Foster, Kenneth

“…Abstract Tremendous agricultural potential in Colombia has gone untapped for decades due to: i) civil strife and the criminal drug trade; ii) uncertain…”
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System Theoretic Time-Series Forecasts of Weekly Live Cattle Prices by Foster, Kenneth A., Havenner, Arthur M., Walburger, Allan M.

“…Multivariate time-series forecasts of weekly live cattle prices in six different geographic markets are developed using a procedure based on the principles of…”
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Estimating productivity changes with flexible coefficients by Dorfman, J.H. (University of Georgia), Foster, K.A

“…Technical progress in U.S. agriculture is evaluated using a new measure of productivity growth, flexible technical change. This measure allows for nonconstant…”
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