Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 82 Document Number: C04975
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Includes Abstract and Introduction only, College Park, MD : University of Maryland, College of Library and Information Services, 1985. 346 p. (Ph D. dissertation)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: C05045
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Includes Table of Contents, Preface and Introduction, Chapel Hill, NC : The University of North Carolina Press, 354 p. (Institute for Research in Social Science Monograph Series)
AGRICOLA AGE 85926146, Extract: The study examines evaluations of recent life experience in farming and expectations for life quality in the future as a function of farm structural characteristics and selected individual attributes. Based on a random sample of farm operators, the two sets of variables are used to predict subjective well-being within farm size categories. The results show that individual characteristics tended to be more important determinants of well- being than were farm structure dimensions. farm size and income measures had minor effects on self-ratings of well-being. Under controls, off-farm work status was not related to well-being. The determinants of well-being were particularly difficult to specify among large-farm operators.
AGRICOLA AGE 86926762, Extract: This paper describes four agribusiness simulators which can be processed on a microcomputer for use in undergraduate and extension teaching. The simulators model the environment in which supermarket chains, farm supply centers, and cooperative and proprietary grain elevators compete for business. Instruction manuals, user's manuals, and a diskette are distributed for each simulator. Each diskette contains programs to enter and print reports, and to create graphs of team performance. The simulators can be used to teach financial management concepts and techniques, as well as economic principles.
daCosta, Richard C. (author), Shaw, Anthony B. (author), and Shaw: Department of Geography, Brock University; daCosta: School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-03
Published:
Canada
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: C05122
AGRICOLA AGE 85925741, Extract: This study examined returns to scale for three categories of rice farms in a region of Guyana where there have been differential rates of technology adoption. It identified the various factors which affected rice production and assessed their relative importance on output. Production functions have been used in analyzing problems of resource allocation in peasant agriculture. These enable a comparison of relative performance of farmers, between farm types, and between geographical areas.
Ellis, John R. (author), Lacewell, Ronald D. (author), Reneau, Duane R. (author), and Ellis: Research associate, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A & M University, TX; Lacewell: Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A & M University, TX; Reneau: Assistant professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Arkansas, AR
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: C05123
Taylor, Daniel B. (author), Young, Douglas L. (author), and Taylor: Assistant professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA.; Young: Associate professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 84 Document Number: C05167
AGRICOLA AGE 85926239, Extract: The complementary interaction between topsoil depth and technical progress for winter wheat in the Palouse region was found to strengthen the long run payoff to conservation tillage. Nonetheless, conservation tillage was found to be competitive with conventional tillage only if its current yields disadvantages were eliminated. Conservation tillage was relatively more competitive on shallower topsoils and for longer planning horizons. Short-term subsidies coupled with research directed towards reducing the cost and yield disadvantages of conservation tillage in the Palouse were advocated to maintain long-term soil productivity.
