Articles
A Dynamic and Flexible Undergraduate Curriculum: Preparing Agribusiness Students for a Continually Changing Agricultural Sector (with Xiaowei Cai), International Food and Agribusiness Management Review Special Issue: Human Capital Development in Agribusiness (2012)
Individuals entering the Agribusiness industry need to have the flexibility to adapt to a rapidly...
Estimating Willingness to Pay Using a Polychotomous Choice Function: An Application to Pork Products with Environmental Attributes (with Douglas J. Miller and James B. Kliebenstein), Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (2006)
Bid data from a Vickrey auction for pork chops with embedded environmental attributes were analyzed....
Consumer Attitudes Toward Manure Storage, Handling, and Application Methods (with James B. Kliebenstein), Swine Research Report, 2000 (2001)
Participants indicated a level of concern for environmental impacts and livestock production. Approximately half (46%)...
A Look at Consumer Willingness to Pay for Pork Products with Environmental Attributes (with James B. Kliebenstein), Swine Research Report, 1999 (2000)
Environmental issues such as air and water quality related to livestock production are receiving much...
Reports
The Economic Impact of the Stanislaus County Food Processing Industry and the Food Processing By-Products Use Program (with Jay E. Noel 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...
Clustering of Independent Dairy Operators for Generation of Bio-Renewable Energy: A Feasibility Analysis (with James J. Ahern 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...
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 Richard Thompson, Christopher Dicus, Lori Berger, and Jay E. Noel), 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...
A Synopsis of the Regulatory Environment Affecting California Specialty Crops, Report prepared for the California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops (2005)
California specialty crop producers face multiple regulatory bodies from both the state and federal government....
A Cross Comparison Between California and Its Domestic and International Competitors With Respect to Key Labor Issues, Report prepared for the California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops (2004)
California had a market value of agricultural products sold of $25.7 billion in the year...
Presentations
An Analysis of the Tradeoffs between Policy Instruments to Induce Dairy Producers in California to Participate in a Centralized Digester (with James J. Ahern 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...
A Regional and Industry Analysis of the Complexity of the Regulatory Environment Affecting Agricultural Producers in California (with Jay E. Noel), 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...
An Estimation of the Regulatory Cost on California Agricultural Producers (with Jay E. Noel), 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...
An Examination of Additively Separable Willingness-To-Pay for Environmental Attributes: Evidence from a Pork Experiment (with James B. Kliebenstein), 2005 American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island (2005)
This paper examines what is the best method for pork producers to market pork products...
Cost of Organic Pork Production: A Seasonal Analysis and Needed Price Premium for Continuous Production (with James Kliebenstein, Ben Larson, and Mark Honeyman), 2004 American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting: Denver, CO (2004)
Niche markets of agricultural products are experiencing rapid growth. One such niche market is organic...