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Biology and Management of Fusarium Species on Sugar Beet

Lai, Xiao (North Dakota State University, 2017)

Minnesota and North Dakota together produce about 51% of the beet sugar in the United States of America. Fusarium diseases caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. betae and F. secorum on sugar beet cause significant reduction ...

Real Option Analysis of Primary Rail Contracts in Grain Shipping

Landman, Daniel (North Dakota State University, 2017)

Grain shipping for a country elevator involves many sources of risk and uncertainty. In response to these dynamic challenges faced by shippers, railroad carriers offer various types of forward contracting instruments and ...

The Emperors of Sport: Dominican Baseball during the US Occupation of the Dominican Republic, 1916-1924

Larson, Karl (North Dakota State University, 2017)

While baseball is typically associated with the United States for most Western readers, the sport was already being played in Cuba, Japan, and the Dominican Republic before the United States fully realized its own Major ...

Caretakers of the Community's Past Volunteers in North Dakota Museums

Lien, Amber (North Dakota State University, 2017)

The bulk of museum studies research focuses on professionalized museums. Little research has been conducted on the challenges of small museums. This study looks at volunteers in small North Dakota museums. Sparsely populated ...

Stochastic Budgeting and Input Breakeven Analysis in North Dakota Potato Production

Bingham, Alan (North Dakota State University, 2017)

Enterprise budgets were developed for non-irrigated red and irrigated russet potato production, based on North Dakota model farms. Costs and revenues vary among producers, thus budgets are intended to serve as a template ...

Delayed Harvest Affects Quality of Durum Wheat

Cabas-Lühmann, Patricia Alejandra (North Dakota State University, 2017)

Harvest can be delayed for many reasons. This research was conducted to determine the effect of delayed harvest on grain and semolina quality of durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. ssp. durum [Desf.] Husn.). Twelve durum ...

Augmenting Fungicidal Activity of Tetraconazole with Chemosensitization Agents for Cercospora Leaf Spot Management

Metz, Nicholas James (North Dakota State University, 2017)

Cercospora beticola (Sacc.) is the causal agent of Cercospora leaf spot (CLS). CLS is considered to be one of the most destructive foliar diseases of sugar beet in the world. CLS is managed in part through resistant ...

Optimization of Soybean Buying Strategies Using Derivatives

Moody, Nathaniel David (North Dakota State University, 2017)

The portfolio model of hedging framework, based off Markowitz (1952), is used to determine the best mix of futures, basis, and option contracts to hedge a soybean purchase from PNW 28 weeks in to the future. Eighteen options ...

Mid-Wisconsinan Climate Reconstruction Based on Fossil Beetles from Six Mile Creek, Ithaca, New York

Shrestha, Sangita (North Dakota State University, 2018)

The history of the Mid-Wisconsinan sub-stage in northeastern North America is one of large climatic oscillations. Fossil beetles were extracted from two horizons at the Six Mile Creek site, New York. A total of 738 individuals ...