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2. Soil erosion, intertemporal profit, and the soil conservation decision
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Debertin, David L. (author), Pagoulatos, Angelos (author), Sjarkowi, Fachurrozi (author), and Pagoulatos: Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky, KY; Debertin: Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky, KY; Sjarkowi: Former graduate research assistant, University of Kentucky, KY
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1989-12
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: C05160
- Journal Title:
- Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 21 (2) : 55-62.
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 90017248, This study developed an intertemporal profit function to determine optimal conservation adoption strategies under alternative scenarios with respect to crop prices, relative yields, discount rates, and other assumptions. Special emphasis was placed on determining from the analysis when the switchover from conventional to soil-conserving practices should take place. Technological change was incorporated by allowing crop yields to vary over time. Our analysis thus provides a new, more precise measurement of the cumulative net benefit differential. The optimal period for switchover from conventional to soil-conserving practices was found to vary depending on the assumptions made about corn Prices and discount rates. Empirical results were based on an erosion damage function (EDF) for Western Kentucky corn production.
3. Rewards and impacts of participation in a gerontology extension program
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hendricks, Jon (author), Hougland, James G., Jr. (author), Turner, Howard B. (author), and Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1988-07
- Published:
- USA: Medford, MA : Association of Voluntary Action Scholars.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 86 Document Number: C05586
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Voluntary Action Research
- Journal Title Details:
- 17 (3/4) : 19-35.
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 89051563, The research presented in this article examined life satisfaction and volunteer activity satisfaction in retired professionals who volunteered. The authors looked at four areas: 1) how life satisfaction and volunteer action changes as volunteers' self perceived effectiveness and opportunities for formal demonstration of competencies increases; 2) how satisfaction with the activity changes as volunteers' self-perceived effectiveness and opportunities for formal demonstration of competencies increases; 3) how life satisfaction and voluntary action change as satisfaction with the specific activity increases; and 4) how the reasons for participation affect the first three relationships. This article reports the findings from two questionnaires given to 39 volunteers at the beginning and end of a six month project. The scales used measured: self-esteem, morale, reactions to the project, social alienation, voluntary action, reasons for volunteering, and motivation. The authors found that these volunteers' perceived effectiveness was associated with increased program satisfaction, and that reasons for involvement create variation in implications for voluntary action.