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MARKETS FOR NORTHERN PLAINS AQUACULTURE--CASE STUDY OF TILAPIA
The purpose of this study is to identify and investigate alternative fresh and frozen fillet markets for tilapia within the region. The competition for this market is primarily an imported product from Asia and Central America. Total imports plus domestic production has increased from 16.95 million pounds in 1992 to 70.74 million pounds in 1997. Thirty-seven of the 79 respondents handled tilapia in their business. Thirty of these businesses handled and preferred fresh fillets while ten handled frozen tilapia. The tilapia businesses were clear in their preferences: 5 to 7 ounce fillets, quick delivery response time, constant supply, taste and size, and suppliers oriented toward customer service. Twenty-six of the 37 respondents were open to new suppliers. The responding businesses which did not handle tilapia gave their reasons: lack of demand due to customer unfamiliarity, name recognition and taste of tilapia. The need for an established market, i.e., consumer demand, was the major factor. The domestically produced tilapia did not test well in any of the three sensory perception taste tests. The results of these tests indicate both a quality issue and a variation in quality from test to test. These issues need to be solved prior to initiating a marketing effort for fresh and frozen fillets.tilapia, North American Fish Farmers Cooperative, North Central Region, sensory evaluation, production, prices, size, imports, Marketing, Production Economics,
Effects of Alternative Cropping Patterns and Management Decisions on Soil Erosion and Revenue, Region VII, North Dakota
This report focuses on the economic impact of selected agricultural management policies and the corresponding effect upon soil erosion.Farm Management, Land Economics/Use,
Missouri River Water Use in North Dakota
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Vertex Expansion for the Bianchi I model
A perturbative expansion of Loop Quantum Cosmological transitions amplitudes
of Bianchi I models is performed. Following the procedure outlined in [1,2] for
isotropic models, it is shown that the resulting expansion can be written in
the form of a series of amplitudes each with a fixed number of transitions
mimicking a spin foam expansion. This analogy is more complete than in the
isotropic case, since there are now the additional anisotropic degrees of
freedom which play the role of `colouring' of the spin foams. Furthermore, the
isotropic expansion is recovered by integrating out the anisotropies.Comment: 15 pages, 2 figure
Letters between A. C. Nelson and William Kerr
Letters concerning a position in the art department at Utah Agricultural College
Activities and Classroom Demonstrations in Biological Physics: A resource document
We give detailed recipes for a number of classroom demonstrations relevant to biological physics instruction. We developed them mainly for use in 2nd-3rd year undergraduate Physics courses. But you can (and we do) use them for primary school, through high school, up to PhD candidates. You adapt the words for each audience, but a phenomenon is a phenomenon.
We also outline a 1-hour introduction to Python for undergraduate scientific computing.
Finally we document some outcomes from courses taught at U Pennsylvania using these resources and others cited here. This material was presented at a workshop at the AAPT meeting in July 2018
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