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I want to share with you today some winning strategies farm families and the extension team of specialists, agents and ag communicators should use in loday\u27s economy

Profile of North Dakota's Coal Mine and Electric Power Plant Operating Work Force

This report is a continuation of research on the economic and social effects of coal development in western North Dakota. The purpose of the report is to provide a profile of the characteristics of the operating work force in North Dakota's coal mines and electric power generating plants.Labor and Human Capital, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

Selected Financial and Other Socioeconomic Characteristics of North Dakota Farm and Ranch Operators

Farm Management,

Families Displaced from Farming in North Dakota: Characteristics and Adjustment Experiences

Agricultural Finance, Labor and Human Capital,

The Impact of the Safeguard Anti-Ballistic Missile System Construction on Northeastern North Dakota

Federal defense projects have let to rapid population changes in many communities. These communities often have experienced rapid growth during the construction and installation phase, followed by a population decrease when the project became operational and labor requirements declined. Large industrial construction projects (e.g., construction of coal conversion plants) may confront other communities with similar adjustment problems.Community/Rural/Urban Development,

AREA OF EXPERTISE TEAMS: THE MICHIGAN APPROACH TO APPLIED RESEARCH AND EXTENSION

Michigan State University's Extension and Agricultural Experiment Station have restructured their educational delivery system through implementation of area of expertise teams. Adopting the concept of self-directed work teams from industry has resulted in enhanced credibility with stakeholders, a seamless linkage between research and Extension, and increased appropriations from the state legislature.Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,

Financial, Managerial, and Attitudinal Characteristics of North Dakota Farm Families: Results of the 1986 Farm Survey

Agricultural Finance, Farm Management,

The time value of money

EC-895; This circular deals with the concept of time and how it effects the "bottom line" of your farm or ranch operation. Five economic concepts related to time are discusse

A Methodology for Measuring Potential Benefits from Drought-Oriented Research in Nebraska

The growth in agricultural productivity and significance of science and technology in contributing to this growth has been well documented by Bredahl, Cline, Evenson (1967), Griliches (1964), and Peterson. The results of these studies generally indicate that over the past several decades, investment in agricultural research has paid off with relatively high rates of return. Most of this previous work, however, has been directed at estimating returns to aggregate agricultural research in an ex post sense at the national level and does not address the question of potential future returns to research at a state or regional level (Norton). Thus, a particular need exists to develop a methodology for evaluating the potential returns to specific types of agricultural research at a subnational level. The allocation of agricultural research funds in the United States is determined in large part by political decisionmakers and research administrators at the state level. Although aggregated, national-level, ex post estimates of returns to research are useful to state-level research administrators as indicators of research potential and as a means of justifying funding requests, they are not directly applicable to the larger issues involved. A state-level assessment of the effects of agricultural research should be as situation specific as possible: considering at least the geographic distribution of benefits and the division of benefits between consumers and producers. Essentially, research administrators need to know which types of agricultural research can be expected to have the highest payoffs and to whom the gains will accrue. Answers to questions regarding the magnitude and distribution of agricultural research benefits depend on five primary factors: (1) the impact which a research finding has on production possibilities, (2) the rate and extent of adoption, (3) supply elasticities of the commodities affected, (4) price elasticities of demand for the commodities affected, and (5) agricultural policy. An analysis of potential returns to agricultural research at the state level must consider each of these factors. The purpose of this paper is to present a general conceptual framework for such analyses and also to describe how this framework is being applied in a study of potential returns to research in Nebraska.Crop Production/Industries, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,