Agribusiness faculty research balances theory with practical application as they respond to changes in the agribusiness industry, both global and domestic. These changes include increasingly industrialized operations, new technologies, consumer awareness, and policies that influence support and trade.
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Submissions from 2000
Economics of Precision Agriculture, Wayne H. Howard
Estimating the Off-farm Labor Supply in Canada, Wayne Howard and Michael Swidinsky
Grading Error Reduces Grower Incentive to Increase Prune Quality, Jennifer S. James, James A. Chalfant, Nathalie Lavoie, and Richard J. Sexton
Conflicts Over Farming Practices in Canada: The Role of Interactive Conflict Resolution Approaches, Lorne Owen, Wayne Howard, and Mark Waldron
The State of Urban and Community Forestry in California, Richard P. Thompson and James J. Ahern
Submissions from 1999
Agroindustrialization Through Institutional Innovation: Transactions Costs, Cooperatives and Milk-Market Development in the Ethopian Highlands, Garth Holloway, Charles Nicholson, Chris Delgado, Steven Staal, and Simeon K. Ehui
The Potential for Marketing Pork Products with Embedded Environmental Attributes: Results from an Experimental Study, Sean P. Hurley and James B. Kliebenstein
Asymmetric Grading Error and Adverse Selection: Lemons in the California Prune Industry, Jennifer S. James, James A. Chalfant, Nathalie Lavoie, and Richard J. Sexton
Impacts of the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact on New England Milk Supply, Charles F. Nicholson, Budy Resosudarmo, and Rick Wackernagel
The Impacts of Dairy Cattle Ownership on the Nutritional Status of Preschool Children in Coastal Kenya, Charles F. Nicholson and Phillip K. Thornton
Submissions from 1998
Off-farm Work by Census-farm Operators: An Overview of Structure and Mobility Patterns, Michael Swidinsky, Wayne H. Howard, and Alfons Weersink
Submissions from 1997
Management of California Oak Woodlands: Uncertainties and Modeling, Jay E. Noel and Richard P. Thompson
Submissions from 1996
The Economic Benefits of New Information Technology, Wayne H. Howard, Glenn Fox, and Calum Turvey
Thinking Styles and Financial Characteristics of Selected Canadian Farm Managers, Wayne W. Howard, George L. Brinkman, and Remy Lambert
Massively Parallel Computation of Large-Scale Spatial Price Equilibrium Models With Discriminatory Ad Valorem Tariffs, Anna Nagurney, Charles F. Nicholson, and Phillip M. Bishop
Strategic Planning and Performance: Helping Directors and Managers Communicate, Jay E. Noel and David J. Schaffner
Smallholder Dairying under Transactions Costs in East Africa, Steven Staal, Christopher L. Delgado, and Charles F. Nicholson
Submissions from 1995
Ontario Beef Producers'Attitudes about Artificial Insemination, Wayne H. Howard and John Cranfield
Valuation of Transferable Delivery Rights for Marketing Cooperatives, Charles V. Moore and Jay E. Noel
Submissions from 1994
An Evaluation of the Ontario Farm Business Management Association Program, Wayne H. Howard and Glen C. Filson
An Optimization Model of the Dual-Purpose Cattle Production System in the Humid Lowlands of Venezuela, Charles F. Nicholson, David R. Lee, Richard N. Boisvert, Robert W. Blake, and Isabella C. Urbina
Creating Vertical Strategic Alliances: Theory and Cases from Canada's Agri-Food Sector, Erna van Duren, Wayne H. Howard, and Helen McKay
Changes in Water Allocation Mechanisms for California Agriculture, David Zilberman, Neal MacDougall, and Farhed Shah
Submissions from 1993
Ultrafiltration in the Ontario Dairy Industry, Wayne H. Howard and Remy Lambert
Submissions from 1992
Estimating the Effectiveness of Extension Information Systems Using Farm Trical and Subjective Probabilities, Wayne H. Howard, Robert W. Blake, Thomas O. Knight, Richard C. Shumway, and Michael A. Tomaszewski