Assessing the Effectiveness of Farm Supply Cooperatives: A Comparison of Farmer and Manager Viewpoints

This paper reports the results of a survey of attitudes of commercial farmers and supply cooperative managers about agricultural supply cooperatives. Cooperative managers and farmers frequently made significantly different responses to questionnaire statements. With a few expectations, farm size and farmer age did not appear to influence perceptions about supply cooperatives. Whether a farmer was a cooperative member was important in some cases. Lower prices in lieu of easy credit and patronage refunds were found to be acceptable to farmers, but not at the expense of good service. Managers placed great importance on member loyalty to the supply cooperative without regard to price consideration.Agribusiness,

POTENTIAL ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF AFRICAN SWINE FEVER AND ITS CONTROL IN THE UNITED STATES

Livestock Production/Industries,

WHEAT ACREAGE SUPPLY RESPONSE IN THE UNITED STATES

The dynamic structure of wheat acreage supply response is considerably more complex than previous studies have recognized. The distributed lag response is saw-toothed in its pattern, which is believed to eminate from the influence of summer fallow in crop rotations in the Great Plains. The acreage response elasticity estimate for the Great Plains at mean price was 1.3, and for the aggregate U.S. it was 1.5. For the Unites States, the proportion of long-run response experienced over the first five years from an increment to price was .24, .44, .70, .95, and. 99.Crop Production/Industries,

Letter from Mary E. Burt to John Muir, 1907 Nov 27.

November 27th, 1907.Mr. John Muir,Author of The Mountains of California .Dear Sir:-I thank you very much for your kind permission to print the Sierra Storm . John Burroughs looked it over, and commended you and your works enthusiastically. He ran up early one morning to take, breakfast with us, and look through my manuscript with much interest.Mr. Scott, President of the Century Co., has given his permission. I am glad you\u27ve suggested the name Sierra Storm .Yours sincerely[illegible][illegible]0398

THE CONSEQUENCES OF AN OPEN FIELD BURNING BAN ON THE U.S. KENTUCKY BLUEGRASS SEED INDUSTRY

An econometric model of the U.S. Kentucky bluegrass seed industry in the Pacific Northwest is specified and estimated in order to evaluate the short and long run consequences of yield reductions associated with a ban on open field burning of grass residues. While results differ among regions, model simulations of short run effects of reduced yields attributed to the burning ban indicate price increases for grass seed ranging from 0 to 69 percent and long run effects indicate increased acreage of grass seed production due to producers responses to higher prices.Crop Production/Industries,

An annotated list of the amphibians and reptiles of Riley County, Kansas

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/56628/1/OP189.pd