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Forget the Hoe: Managing Invasive Plant Species with Dynamic Programming"
Verdone, Michael; Frasier, W. Marshall - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
Abstract Bromus Tectorum is an invasive plant species known to reduce abundance of native perennial grasses, increase fire frequency and intensity, decrease animal performance, and alter microbial communities and ecosystem processes. Specifically, in the Intermountain West, Bromus has been...
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Integrating Efficiency Concepts in Technology Approximation: A Weighted DEA Approach
Minegishi, Kota - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
A method is developed to integrate the efficiency concepts of technical, allocative, and scale inefficiencies (TI, AI, SI) into the variable returns to scale (VRS) frontier approximation in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The proposed weighted DEA (WDEA) approach takes a weighted average of the...
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Red Meats Yearbook, 1994, Supplement to Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Situation and Outlook
Cochran, P. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1994
Marketing Service CAMS); Estimates Division, National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS); and Commodity Economics Division …
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Poultry Yearbook 1994. Supplement to Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Situation and Outlook.
Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1995
The bulletin reports major statistical series for the egg and poultry industries since 1960. It updates U.S. Egg and Poultry Statistical Series. 1960-92 (SB-872). The bulletin is divided into four major sections: Eggs, Broilers (young chickens), Other Chicken (mature or nonbroiler chickens), and...
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Dairy Yearbook, December 1995. Supplement to Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Situation and Outlook
Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1995
(USDA) data are provided by the Dairy Division. Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS); Estimates Division. National …
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Dairy Situation and Outlook Report and Yearbook, August 1994
Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1994
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Pricing Fed Cattle on a Grid: An Analysis of the Incentive Mechanism over Time
Fausti, Scott W.; Wang, Gerald; Diersen, Matthew A.; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2012
/disincentive market signals to encourage marketing on a grid and discourage marketing by the pen. If this trend continues, grid market …
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Livestock marketing, food security and related issues in Ethipia
Jabbar, Mohammad A.; Ayele, Gezahegn - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), … - 2004
reasons, one of the important reason lies in the problems associated with domestic and international marketing of livestock … institutions to overcome perceived problems in the marketing system to address its links with food security. Knowledge on how … marketing routes and systems contribute to spread of diseases and the implications of these for national and international trade …
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A research methodology for characterizing dairy marketing systems
Jabbar, Mohammad A.; Tambi, E; Mullins, G - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), … - 1997
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Towards Improving Livestock Export Marketing Support Services in the Somali Context: Survey Findings and Implications
Negassa, A.; Costalgi, R.; Metete, G.; Jabbar, Mohammad A. - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), … - 2008
making processes towards improving livestock trade and marketing in Somalia by enabling the development of effective and … efficient marketing support services and accountable and competent rural institutions. The data were collected first through …
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