Such keen interest was created by the papers presented by this author before the annual meeting of The Association of Southern Agricultural Workers at Biloxi, Mississippi, last February, and before a meeting later that month which was sponsored by the Committee on Experimental Design in the...

The Forest Service needed information as to prices for standing timber and logs for use in a study of distribution costs and margins in the pine lumber industry of the Southeast. The study was conducted under the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (RMA, Title II). As North Carolina, the chosen...

A basic model is presented as an expansion of the general location model for optimal organization of an industry operating in spatial markets. Complications are introduced into the model: variations in raw product costs, inventory and carryover (considerations, and multiproduct firms. Recent...

IN THE FIRST PART of this paper, we are I concerned with formulating an interregional activity analysis model for a multiproduct industry. The model is first presented as a generalization, applicable to many such industries. The remainder of the paper illustrates a specific application of the...

Reasonable reliability of the mailed inquiry has been attained by Agricultural Estimates and other agencies whose restricted budgets require them to rely largely on this method of collecting data for their surveys. Reliability is achieved mainly by building up historical series for some surveys...

The obtaining of quantitative data for economic analysis of changes in the agricultural use of land has been a problem in recent years. Field study is a slow and expensive method of providing information. Usually, it requires several experienced persons to collect the data needed. The airphoto...

Most of the papers published in Agricultural Economics Research originate either within the Bureau of Agricultural Economics itself or in projects carried on cooperatively with the State Agricultural Colleges. This is not an inviolable rule, however, and this issue contains two exceptions to it:...