Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 107 Document Number: C10136
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search from AgEcon. http://agecon.lib.umn.edu, American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, August 2-5, 1998, Salt Lake City. 14 p., This paper considers an agricultural production model of sequential nitrogen application under risk. Because of
random shocks between successive production stages, optimal fertilization decisions depend on the magnitude of farmers' risk aversion (risk premium), and the possibility for farmers to process information (value of information). We propose a joint estimation procedure of technology and risk aversion parameters, using a structural, simulation-based econometric technique. Parameter estimates for the representative farmer's utility function allow to compute both the value of information and the risk premium for farmers. Those account together for about 30 percent of fertilizer cost for Midwest corn producers.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes1; Folder: IFDC File Document Number: D01435
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Conference paper with slides, Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, Prepared for the IFDC/APPI, fertilizer marketing training program for the asian region, Cikampek, Indonesia. 28 pages with 42 visuals in appendices.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes3 Document Number: D01429
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Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, For presentation at the Fertilizer Efficiency Research in the Tropics (FERITT) Training Course Cosponsored by IFDC/IITA/University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. visual presentation,including slides, 16 pages.
Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, International Fertilizer Development Center, Muscle Shoals, Alabama. 7 pages., The use of the Guttman-type scale of community differentiation provides a means to measure the community environment which, although lying beyond the farm, nevertheless influences the farmer's decision making.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: KerryByrnes2 Document Number: D01243
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Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, Socioeconomic evaluation in fertilizer use evaluation, 10 pages, This paper outlines a program of fertilizer use evaluation based on the agro-socioeconomic research concepts and methodology currently being developed and tested by the IDRC-supported IFDC/CIAT phosphate project in Colombia.
