Articles

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Valuation of Tree Aesthetics on Small Urban-Interface Properties (with Richard Thompson, Richard Hanna, and Douglas D. Piirto), Journal of Arboriculture (1999)

A model was developed to predict the value contribution of forest condition on small urban-wildland...

 

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Estimating Value Contribution of Tree and Stand Condition (with R. Joss Hanna, Richard P. Thompson, and Douglas D. Piirto), Oak Woodlands: Ecology, Management and Urban Interface Issues Symposium (1996)

Key issues in encouraging forest management at the interface level in the oak woodlands are...

 

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Valuation of Transferable Delivery Rights for Marketing Cooperatives (with Charles V. Moore), Journal of Cooperatives (1995)

Delivery rights to a cooperative's marketing pool can take on a value independent of the...

 

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Optimal Regional Conjunctive Water Management (with Delworth B. Gardner and Charles V. Moore), American Journal of Agricultural Economics (1980)

An optimal control model is used to determine the socially optimal spatial and temporal allocation...

 

Conference Proceedings

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An Estimation of the Regulatory Cost on California Agricultural Producers (with Sean P. Hurley), American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting: Long Beach, California (2006)

Regulations can have many different effects on producers—both positive and negative. They can positively affect...

 

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An Estimation of the Regulatory Cost on California Agricultural Producers (with Sean P. Hurley), American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting: Long Beach, California (2006)

Regulations can have many different effects on producers—both positive and negative. They can positively affect...

 

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An Estimation of the Regulatory Cost on California Agricultural Producers (with Sean P. Hurley), American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting: Long Beach, California (2006)

Regulations can have many different effects on producers—both positive and negative. They can positively affect...

 

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An Estimation of the Regulatory Cost on California Agricultural Producers (with Sean P. Hurley), American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting: Long Beach, California (2006)

Regulations can have many different effects on producers—both positive and negative. They can positively affect...

 

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A Regional and Industry Analysis of the Complexity of the Regulatory Environment Affecting Agricultural Producers in California (with Sean P. Hurley), American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting: Long Beach, California (2006)

Regulations have been studied from many different vantage points in the past. Carter, Chalfont, and...

 

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A Regional and Industry Analysis of the Complexity of the Regulatory Environment Affecting Agricultural Producers in California (with Sean P. Hurley), American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting: Long Beach, California (2006)

Regulations have been studied from many different vantage points in the past. Carter, Chalfont, and...

 

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A Regional and Industry Analysis of the Complexity of the Regulatory Environment Affecting Agricultural Producers in California (with Sean P. Hurley), American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting: Long Beach, California (2006)

Regulations have been studied from many different vantage points in the past. Carter, Chalfont, and...

 

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A Regional and Industry Analysis of the Complexity of the Regulatory Environment Affecting Agricultural Producers in California (with Sean P. Hurley), American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting: Long Beach, California (2006)

Regulations have been studied from many different vantage points in the past. Carter, Chalfont, and...

 

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Optimal Market Contracting in the California Lettuce Industry (with Kallie Donnelly), American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting: Long Beach, California (2006)

Marketing and production contracts are a widely used risk mitigating strategy in the agricultural industry....

 

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Optimal Market Contracting in the California Lettuce Industry (with Kallie Donnelly), American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting: Long Beach, California (2006)

Marketing and production contracts are a widely used risk mitigating strategy in the agricultural industry....

 

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Optimal Market Contracting in the California Lettuce Industry (with Kallie Donnelly), American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting: Long Beach, California (2006)

Marketing and production contracts are a widely used risk mitigating strategy in the agricultural industry....

 

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Optimal Market Contracting in the California Lettuce Industry (with Kallie Donnelly), American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting: Long Beach, California (2006)

Marketing and production contracts are a widely used risk mitigating strategy in the agricultural industry....

 

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A Multiattribute Utility Analysis of Technological Choice in the California Wild Rice Industry (with James J. Ahern, 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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Breeders' Awards and the Gambler's Corner Solution (with James J. Ahern), 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...

 

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Breeders' Awards and the Gambler's Corner Solution (with James J. Ahern), 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...

 

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Breeders' Awards and the Gambler's Corner Solution (with James J. Ahern), 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...

 

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Breeders' Awards and the Gambler's Corner Solution (with James J. Ahern), 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...

 

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Estimating Value Contribution of Tree and Stand Condition (with R. Joss Hanna, Richard P. Thompson, and Douglas D. Piirto), Oak Woodlands: Ecology, Management and Urban Interface Issues Symposium (1996)

Key issues in encouraging forest management at the interface level in the oak woodlands are...

 

Reports

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The Economic Impact of the Stanislaus County Food Processing Industry and the Food Processing By-Products Use Program (with Sean P. Hurley and Jessica Bylsma), California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops (2007)

In the late 1970’s, Stanislaus County recognized that there existed a potential issue with the...

 

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The Economic Impact of the Stanislaus County Food Processing Industry and the Food Processing By-Products Use Program (with Sean P. Hurley and Jessica Bylsma), California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops (2007)

In the late 1970’s, Stanislaus County recognized that there existed a potential issue with the...

 

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The Economic Impact of the Stanislaus County Food Processing Industry and the Food Processing By-Products Use Program (with Sean P. Hurley and Jessica Bylsma), California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops (2007)

In the late 1970’s, Stanislaus County recognized that there existed a potential issue with the...

 

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The Economic Impact of the Stanislaus County Food Processing Industry and the Food Processing By-Products Use Program (with Sean P. Hurley and Jessica Bylsma), California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops (2007)

In the late 1970’s, Stanislaus County recognized that there existed a potential issue with the...

 

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A Benefit Transfer Approach to the Estimation of Agro-Ecosystems Services Benefits: A Case Study of Kern County, California (with Eivis Quenani-Petrela and Thomas Mastin), California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops (2007)

Agro-ecosystem functions support not only the production of food and fiber but a variety of...

 

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A Benefit Transfer Approach to the Estimation of Agro-Ecosystems Services Benefits: A Case Study of Kern County, California (with Eivis Quenani-Petrela and Thomas Mastin), California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops (2007)

Agro-ecosystem functions support not only the production of food and fiber but a variety of...

 

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A Benefit Transfer Approach to the Estimation of Agro-Ecosystems Services Benefits: A Case Study of Kern County, California (with Eivis Quenani-Petrela and Thomas Mastin), California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops (2007)

Agro-ecosystem functions support not only the production of food and fiber but a variety of...

 

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A Benefit Transfer Approach to the Estimation of Agro-Ecosystems Services Benefits: A Case Study of Kern County, California (with Eivis Quenani-Petrela and Thomas Mastin), California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops (2007)

Agro-ecosystem functions support not only the production of food and fiber but a variety of...

 

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Devolution of Federal Agricultural Policy: The Case of Specialty Crop Block Grants (with David Schweikhardt), California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops Report (2007)

There is a lengthy history of devolution of federal policy and programs to the states...

 

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Devolution of Federal Agricultural Policy: The Case of Specialty Crop Block Grants (with David Schweikhardt), California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops Report (2007)

There is a lengthy history of devolution of federal policy and programs to the states...

 

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Devolution of Federal Agricultural Policy: The Case of Specialty Crop Block Grants (with David Schweikhardt), California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops Report (2007)

There is a lengthy history of devolution of federal policy and programs to the states...

 

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Devolution of Federal Agricultural Policy: The Case of Specialty Crop Block Grants (with David Schweikhardt), California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops Report (2007)

There is a lengthy history of devolution of federal policy and programs to the states...

 

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Analysis of the Regulatory Effects of California Specialty Crops: An Examination of Various Issues Impacting Selected Forest Products, Tree Fruit, Nut, and Vegetable Crop Industries (with Sean P. Hurley, Richard Thompson, Christopher Dicus, and Lori Berger), Cal Poly Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops Report (2006)

In a research report for the California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops, Hurley...

 

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Analysis of the Regulatory Effects of California Specialty Crops: An Examination of Various Issues Impacting Selected Forest Products, Tree Fruit, Nut, and Vegetable Crop Industries (with Sean P. Hurley, Richard Thompson, Christopher Dicus, and Lori Berger), Cal Poly Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops Report (2006)

In a research report for the California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops, Hurley...

 

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Analysis of the Regulatory Effects of California Specialty Crops: An Examination of Various Issues Impacting Selected Forest Products, Tree Fruit, Nut, and Vegetable Crop Industries (with Sean P. Hurley, Richard Thompson, Christopher Dicus, and Lori Berger), Cal Poly Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops Report (2006)

In a research report for the California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops, Hurley...

 

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Analysis of the Regulatory Effects of California Specialty Crops: An Examination of Various Issues Impacting Selected Forest Products, Tree Fruit, Nut, and Vegetable Crop Industries (with Sean P. Hurley, Richard Thompson, Christopher Dicus, and Lori Berger), Cal Poly Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops Report (2006)

In a research report for the California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops, Hurley...

 

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Impact of Increased Minimum Wage on Southern San Joaquin Valley Navel Orange Producers (with Kallie Donnelly), Cal Poly Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops (2006)

The California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops (CISSC) developed a representative farm simulation...

 

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Impact of Increased Minimum Wage on Southern San Joaquin Valley Navel Orange Producers (with Kallie Donnelly), Cal Poly Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops (2006)

The California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops (CISSC) developed a representative farm simulation...

 

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Impact of Increased Minimum Wage on Southern San Joaquin Valley Navel Orange Producers (with Kallie Donnelly), Cal Poly Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops (2006)

The California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops (CISSC) developed a representative farm simulation...

 

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Impact of Increased Minimum Wage on Southern San Joaquin Valley Navel Orange Producers (with Kallie Donnelly), Cal Poly Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops (2006)

The California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops (CISSC) developed a representative farm simulation...

 

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Estimating the Impacts of Differing Price-Risk Management Strategies on the Net Income of Salinas Valley Lettuce Producers: A Stochastic Simulation Approach (with Roland Fumasi and Wayne H. Howard), California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops Report (2005)

While government safety-net programs are used to mitigate the price risk for commodity producers, limited...

 

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Estimating the Impacts of Differing Price-Risk Management Strategies on the Net Income of Salinas Valley Lettuce Producers: A Stochastic Simulation Approach (with Roland Fumasi and Wayne H. Howard), California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops Report (2005)

While government safety-net programs are used to mitigate the price risk for commodity producers, limited...

 

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Estimating the Impacts of Differing Price-Risk Management Strategies on the Net Income of Salinas Valley Lettuce Producers: A Stochastic Simulation Approach (with Roland Fumasi and Wayne H. Howard), California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops Report (2005)

While government safety-net programs are used to mitigate the price risk for commodity producers, limited...

 

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Estimating the Impacts of Differing Price-Risk Management Strategies on the Net Income of Salinas Valley Lettuce Producers: A Stochastic Simulation Approach (with Roland Fumasi and Wayne H. Howard), California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops Report (2005)

While government safety-net programs are used to mitigate the price risk for commodity producers, limited...

 

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The Economic Feasibility of Forming A California Wheat Cooperative (with James J. Ahern, 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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Oak Woodland Economics: A Contingent Valuation of Conversion Alternatives (with Richard P. Thompson and Sarah P. Cross), USDA Forest Service General Technical Report: PSW-GTR-184 (2002)

Decisions on how much land should be devoted to oak woodland preservation is ultimately determined...

 

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Oak Woodland Economics: A Contingent Valuation of Conversion Alternatives (with Richard P. Thompson and Sarah P. Cross), USDA Forest Service General Technical Report: PSW-GTR-184 (2002)

Decisions on how much land should be devoted to oak woodland preservation is ultimately determined...

 

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Oak Woodland Economics: A Contingent Valuation of Conversion Alternatives (with Richard P. Thompson and Sarah P. Cross), USDA Forest Service General Technical Report: PSW-GTR-184 (2002)

Decisions on how much land should be devoted to oak woodland preservation is ultimately determined...

 

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Oak Woodland Economics: A Contingent Valuation of Conversion Alternatives (with Richard P. Thompson and Sarah P. Cross), USDA Forest Service General Technical Report: PSW-GTR-184 (2002)

Decisions on how much land should be devoted to oak woodland preservation is ultimately determined...

 

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Technological Choice: California Wild Rice Processing Under Uncertain Demand (with James J. Ahern, 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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Management of California Oak Woodlands: Uncertainties and Modeling (with Richard P. Thompson), USDA Forest Service General Technical Report PSW-GTR-160 (1997)

A mathematical policy model of oak woodlands is presented. The model illustrates the policy uncertainties...

 

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Management of California Oak Woodlands: Uncertainties and Modeling (with Richard P. Thompson), USDA Forest Service General Technical Report PSW-GTR-160 (1997)

A mathematical policy model of oak woodlands is presented. The model illustrates the policy uncertainties...

 

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Management of California Oak Woodlands: Uncertainties and Modeling (with Richard P. Thompson), USDA Forest Service General Technical Report PSW-GTR-160 (1997)

A mathematical policy model of oak woodlands is presented. The model illustrates the policy uncertainties...

 

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Management of California Oak Woodlands: Uncertainties and Modeling (with Richard P. Thompson), USDA Forest Service General Technical Report PSW-GTR-160 (1997)

A mathematical policy model of oak woodlands is presented. The model illustrates the policy uncertainties...

 

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Strategic Planning and Performance: Helping Directors and Managers Communicate (with David J. Schaffner), University of California, Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (1996)

The results from a survey of California agricultural marketing cooperatives illustrate the importance of boards...