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Venard, Kathryn Lyn
(Kansas State University, 2008)
The sheep dairy industry in the United States is small. Producers are concentrated in a few areas geographically with the greatest demand for sheep milk products located on the east and west coasts. The purpose of this ...
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Snider, Lindsey K.
(Kansas State University, 2008)
This thesis will determine if economies of size are present in production agriculture or the farming sector and if convergence or divergence is occurring. Change in the farming sector was analyzed using five-year moving ...
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Svacina, Leslie
(Kansas State University, 2009)
For more than 10 years Agriculture Future of America (AFA) has been helping college students from around the country prepare for careers in the food and agriculture industry. Over time the organization has received a lot ...
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Crosby, Chris
(Kansas State University, 2008)
A Microsoft Excel based budget was developed to find the cost of becoming
National Animal Identification Systems (NAIS) compliant in the U.S for beef cow-calf
producers. This budget was turned into a stochastic budget ...
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Chess, Sarah
(Kansas State University, 2008)
In the last few years the beef industry has rapidly begun to change. The beef industry during my lifetime will not look like the same industry as during my grandfather's. Input costs are rising dramatically, as well as ...
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Gullickson, Travis R.
(Kansas State University, 2008)
Providing a recommendation on whether to make a capacity expanding capital investment in an existing butter plant is the subject of this thesis. This is important as the success of this project will have a significant ...
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Baradi, Niranjan Kumar
(Kansas State University, 2009)
Concerns about environmental degradation due to agriculture have gained importance as it is associated with soil erosion, health hazards, and ground water pollution. Environment-friendly land use practices have been developed ...
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Freeborn, Jennifer
(Kansas State University, 2009)
Hedonic pricing models have long been used to evaluate prices in high-end segments of the equine industry. However, the lower end markets, including most of the recreational and pleasure horses, have yet to be studied in ...
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Clark, Matthew Ken
(Kansas State University, 2009)
The expansion of the biofuels industry, world demand, and various other factors are having a historic impact on the price of grains. These high prices have been creating a large increase in production of many water intensive ...
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Slattery, Roberta M.
(Kansas State University, 2010)
Newer marketing techniques and production technologies have made large amounts of data available in fed cattle production that previously were not available to the cow-calf producer. The application of this data in breeding ...