Articles

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Industry Response to Beef Sector Policy and Regulation: Case Study of Beef Sector in California (with Robert Delmore and Andy Thulin), California Institute of Specialty Crops (2007)

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An Analysis of the Tradeoffs between Policy Instruments to Induce Dairy Producers in California to Participate in a Centralized Digester (with Sean P. Hurley and Douglas Williams), Proceedings of the 2007 American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting (2007)

Tradeoff between different utility rates and policy intervention to induce dairy producer to join a...

 

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Perceptions of Agriculture and Natural Resource M.S. Graduates Regarding Program Quality and Learning Outcomes Attainment (with Mark D. Shelton, Douglas D. Piirto, and April England), NACTA Journal (2006)

Master's degree recipients from the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences (CAFES) at Cal...

 

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Clustering of Independent Dairy Operators for Generation of Bio-Renewable Energy: A Feasibility Analysis (with Sean P. Hurley and Douglas Williams), California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops (2006)

According to the California Agricultural Statistical Service (CASS), California had almost 1.7 million dairy cows...

 

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Assessment of Biofuels in California and Potential for Future Utilization (with Douglas Williams and Keith Ochwat), California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops (2004)

This study analyzed the potential energy resources contained in the biomass residues from the leading...

 

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The Economic Feasibility of Forming A California Wheat Cooperative (with Jay E. Noel, David J. Schaffner, Jill Johnson, Kristina Muelrath, and Kyle Schroeder), Rural Cooperatives Center: Report (2002)

Recent concerns relative to California farm gate prices for wheat and a lack of profitability...

 

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A Multiattribute Utility Analysis of Technological Choice in the California Wild Rice Industry (with Jay E. Noel, Jess Errecarte, and Kyle Schroeder), American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting - Long Beach (2002)

The California wild rice industry in 2001 is undergoing change. This change is being driven...

 

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Technological Choice: California Wild Rice Processing Under Uncertain Demand (with Jay E. Noel, Jess Errecarte, and Kyle Schroeder), California State University Agricultural Research Initiative (2001)

This study is concerned with technological choice under uncertain demand conditions. It begins with an...

 

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The State of Urban and Community Forestry in California (with Richard P. Thompson), Urban Forest Ecosystems Institute Technical Report # 9 (2000)

Tree and vegetation management in the urban and urban-interface communities create issues of growing importance...

 

Presentations

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Breeders' Awards and the Gambler's Corner Solution (with Jay E. Noel), Western Agricultural Economics Association Meeting Annual Meeting: Vancouver, British Columbia (2000)

California has had a Thoroughbred breeders awards program since 1933. The intent of the program...