http://hdl.handle.net/2097/981 Search the Channel search http://krex.ksu.edu/dspace/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/2097/986 Title: Risks and implications of bovine spongiform encephalopathy for the United States: Insights from other countries<br/><br/>Authors: Fox, John A.; Hanawa Peterson, Hikaru<br/><br/>Abstract: BSE has not been found in the US* but current detection efforts provide littleassurance that it does not exist at a low level. The US has taken precautionary measures to reduce the risk of importing the disease and the risk of the disease spreading if it were to be found. Those measures include a ban on feeding ruminant protein to ruminants—a measure the General Accounting Office concluded was not adequately enforced and which failed to halt the disease in the UK. We present an overview of BSE in the UK, the EU, and Japan and present an argument for additional precautionary measures in the US. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/985 Title: Farmer's perceived costs of wetlands: Effects of size, hydration, and dispersion<br/><br/>Authors: Gelso, Brett R.; Fox, John A.; Peterson, Jeffrey M.<br/><br/>Abstract: We survey landowners to investigate the costs associated with the presence of permanent or seasonal wetland areas in cropland. We find, as predicted by our conceptual model, that dispersion of wetland areas imposes substantial inconvenience costs for producers but that costs respond nonlinearly and irregularly to changes in the frequency of hydration. Producer attitudes toward conservation and environmental regulation have a significant impact on perceived costs, as do some demographic attributes. The analysissuggests that incentives to aggregate dispersed wetlands into larger contiguous areas could benefit landowners while at the same time provide a net increase in wetland area.