FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IN MEAT AND POULTRY MANUFACTURING AND WHOLESALING: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

The financial performance of meat and poultry manufacturing and wholesaling firms is examined for the period from 1970 to 1986. Measures of liquidity, solvency, profitability, cash generation, and efficiency reported in the Robert Morris Associates Annual Statement Studies are used to examine relative performance across the different industries. The results suggest a similar performance in the wholesaling and manufacturing industries across the period in terms of liquidity. Profitability levels are similar for meat and poultry firms, although the poultry firms show a higher level of variability across the period. It appears that poultry firms leveraged themselves relatively more than did meat firms during the period. In terms of cash generation and efficiency the meat manufacturing industry performs slightly better than the other industries.Agricultural Finance,

Polynomial differential equations with many real ovals in the same algebraic complex solution

Let FolR(2, d) be the space of real algebraic foliations of degree d in RP(2). For fixed d, let IntR(2, d) = {F 2 FolR(2, d) | F has a non-constant rational first integral}. Given F 2 IntR(2, d), with primitive first integral G, set O(F) = number of real ovals of the generic level (G = c). Let O(d) = sup{O(F) | F 2 IntR(2, d)}. The main purpose of this paper is to prove that O(d) = +1 for all d _ 5.Let FolR(2, d) be the space of real algebraic foliations of degree d in RP(2). For fixed d, let IntR(2, d) = {F € FolR (2, d) | F has  non-constant rational first integral}. Given F € IntR(2, d), with primitive first integral G, set O(F) = number of real ovals of thegeneric level (G = c). Let O(d) = sup{O(F) | F € IntR(2, d)}.The main purpose of this paper is to prove that O(d) = +∞ for all d ≥ 5

PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE AS A KNOWLEDGE CREATING SYSTEM

Production Economics,

CARETS: A prototype regional environmental information system. Volume 5: Interpretation, compilation and field verification procedures in the CARETS project

The author has identified the following significant results. Level 2 land use mapping from high altitude aircraft photography at a scale of 1:100,000 required production of a photomosaic mapping base for each of the 48, 50 x 50 km sheets, and the interpretation and coding of land use polygons on drafting film overlays. To enhance the value of the land use sheets, a series of overlays was compiled, showing cultural features, county boundaries and census tracts, surface geology, and drainage basins. In producing level 1 land use maps from LANDSAT imagery, at a scale of 1:250,000 drafting film was directly overlaid on LANDSAT color composite transparencies. Numerous areas of change were identified, but extensive areas of false changes were also noted