Articles

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Tasting Room Insights From San Luis Obispo County (with Kathryn Vogt), Wine Business Monthly (2009)

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PET Wine Bottles: Will Consumers Accept Them? (with David Baird), Wine Business Monthly (2008)

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Murgo Farms Inc.: HACCP, ISO 9000, and ISO 14000 (with David Sparling and Jonathon Lee), International Food and Agribusiness Review (2001)

Murgo Farms Inc., addresses the challenge of choosing between the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point...

 

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Conflicts Over Farming Practices in Canada: The Role of Interactive Conflict Resolution Approaches (with Lorne Owen and Mark Waldron), Journal of Rural Studies (2000)

An increasing number of articles in professional and scientific journals, as well as in the...

 

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Economics of Precision Agriculture, Precision Agriculture (2000)
 

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Estimating the Off-farm Labor Supply in Canada (with Michael Swidinsky), Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics (2000)

Off-farm labor supply in Canada is modeled using separate off-farm labor participation and off-farm labor...

 

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Thinking Styles and Financial Characteristics of Selected Canadian Farm Managers (with George L. Brinkman and Remy Lambert), Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics (1996)

The thinking styles of selected Canadian farm managers are identified using the life styles inventory...

 

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Ontario Beef Producers'Attitudes about Artificial Insemination (with John Cranfield), Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics (1995)

Characteristics and attitudes of Ontario beef producers who use artificial insemination and those who use...

 

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Creating Vertical Strategic Alliances: Theory and Cases from Canada's Agri-Food Sector (with Erna van Duren and Helen McKay), Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics (1994)

Participants in Canada's agri0food sector have been averse to vertical collaboration for too long. The...

 

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An Evaluation of the Ontario Farm Business Management Association Program (with Glen C. Filson), Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics (1994)

The Ontario Farm Business Management Association (FBMA) program was initiated to improve the business management...

 

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Ultrafiltration in the Ontario Dairy Industry (with Remy Lambert), Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics (1993)

The economics of introducing ultrafiltration (UF) into the Ontario dairy industry is analyzed. First, a...

 

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Estimating the Effectiveness of Extension Information Systems Using Farm Trical and Subjective Probabilities (with Robert W. Blake, Thomas O. Knight, Richard C. Shumway, and Michael A. Tomaszewski), Agricultural Economics (1992)

A method of combining survey data and Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) records to achieve...

 

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Urbanization and Food Imports in Sub-Saharan Africa (with James Tabi and Truman Phillips), Agricultural Economics (1991)

The Granger statistical test of causality was used to examine the relationship between total food...

 

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Monitoring and Controlling Mastitis on Ontario Dairy Farms (with Ravinderpal Gill, Kenneth E. Leslie, and Kerry Lissemore), Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics (1991)

The frequency of use and the marginal costs and marginal value products of mastitis control...

 

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Regional Adjustment Response in the U.S. Dairy Sector to Changes in Milk Support Price (with Alfons Weersink), Western Journal of Agricultural Economics (1990)

Milk production supply response at the regional level for the U.S. dairy sector is estimated...

 

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Human Resource Management: A Review with Applications to Agriculture (with Kenneth A. McEwan), Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics (1989)

For years the major management concern of farm managers was farm production. In the 1970s...

 

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Technical Change and Applications of Dynamic Duality to Agriculture: Reply (with Richard C. Shumway), American Journal of Agricultural Economics (1989)
 

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What Our Students Should Know: Perspectives from Business and Academia, Agribusiness (1989)

Perspectives from business and academia on the relative importance of various skills and attributes were...

 

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Dynamic Adjustment in the U.S. Dairy Industry (with Richard C. Shumway), American Journal of Agricultural Economics (1988)

A dual model is used to examine the dynamic structure of the U.S. dairy industry....

 

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Linkages Between Regulated and Unregulated Markets: The Case of Milk Supply in Kenya (with Ian McDonald), Agricultural Economics (1988)

Linkages between the regulated and unregulated dairy markets in Kenya were examined using an econometric...

 

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Information and herd Health Management Practices in Texas Dairies (with Thomas O. Knight, Richard C. Shumway, Robert W. Blake, and Michael A. Tomaszewski), Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics (1987)

The dissemination of information by extension agents on dairy management practices used to control mastitis...

 

Conference Proceedings

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Projecting Regional Market Shares for Selected Florida Fresh Market Vegetables (with Arden W. Colette), Proceedings of the Florida State Horticulture Soceity (1981)

Growers of tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants and green peppers in Florida have exhibited concern about their...

 

Reports

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Report to the Provost: Task Group on the Future of the Library (with Joseph Grimes, Linda Halisky, Timothy J. Kearns, Franz J. Kurfess, Michael D. Miller, Roxy Peck, George J. Petersen, Jay A. Singh, and Christopher Yip), Report to the Provost: Task Group on the Future of the Library (2007)

The Provost's task group met Spring Quarter 2007 to examine the role of the library...

 

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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 Jay E. Noel), 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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Off-farm Work by Census-farm Operators: An Overview of Structure and Mobility Patterns (with Michael Swidinsky and Alfons Weersink), Working Paper # 38 - Statistics Canada, Agriculture Division (1998)

The purpose of this paper is to provide descriptive statistics on off-farm labour supply and...

 

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The Economic Benefits of New Information Technology (with Glenn Fox and Calum Turvey), Working Papers (1996)

The purpose of this study is to analyze the demand and supply of information within...