Browsing Agribusiness & Applied Economics Masters Theses by Title
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Estimating the Economic Benefits of Automatic Section Control in the North Dakota Prairie Pothole Region
(North Dakota State University, 2018)The impact of Automatic Section Control (ASC) as a tool of Precision Agricultural Technology as considered in the more efficient application of inputs to produce the four major crops, corn, soybean, HRSW, and canola in the ... -
Estimating U.S. Residential Demand for Fuelwood in the Presence of Selectivity
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Residential energy consumers have options for home heating. With many applications, appliances, and fuel types, fuelwood used for heating faces stiff competition in modern society from other fuels. This study estimates ... -
Ethanol Policy, Commodity Revenue, and Import Quantity Demand: The United States and Brazil
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Brazil and the United States have been major players in the ethanol industry for over a decade. Both countries have a strong policy backing to push the production and use of the renewable fuel while other parts of the world ... -
Evaluating the Economic Feasibility of Canola Biodiesel Production in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2006)Numerous factors have pushed energy from biomass to the forefront of policy and industry discussions. Large harvests of traditional crops, low farm prices, dependence on foreign energy sources, and environmental problems ... -
Evaluating the Role of Trade Openness and Trade Openness Risk on Agricultural Production Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis of Sub-Saharan African Countries
(North Dakota State University, 2013)The impacts of trade openness and trade openness risk on the technical efficiency of agricultural production were examined using an extended stochastic frontier analysis econometric model. This model simultaneously estimates ... -
Ex-Ante Temporal Optimization in Soybean Origination: An Overdetermined Approach Through Deep Learning
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Digitization is influencing commodity trading and agricultural markets and as they transition towards extreme liquidity, agribusiness risk exposures increase, and traditional competitive advantages diminish. In commodity ... -
Examination of North Dakota's Production, Cost, and Profit Functions: A Quantile Regression Analysis
(North Dakota State University, 2008)This thesis estimates the production, cost, and profit functions for North Dakota agriculture using state-level input-output quantity and price data for the period 1960-2004. A Cobb-Douglas functional form with Hick-neutral ... -
Examining Integration, Efficiency and Technical Change in Chinese Pork Production
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Pork has been the main protein source for the Chinese millennia. Though China is the largest pork producer in the world, multiple challenges hinder development of pork production and hence demand are difficult to satisfy. ... -
Factors Influencing Potato Production in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2008)Spatial shifts and structural changes continue to occur in the United States agricultural industry. Researchers have documented that the potato industry has changed in response to demands of consumers, expectations of ... -
Farmers' Preference to Precision Agriculture Data Management: A Discrete Choice Experiment
(North Dakota State University, 2022)There is no legal or regulatory framework that protects a farmer’s right to control the data generated from their use of precision agriculture. This may impede the adoption of new precision agricultural technologies. Using ... -
Filling in Missing Values in the North Dakota Land Valuation Model
(North Dakota State University, 2013)The North Dakota Land Valuation Model relies on a crop yield data set published by the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Over the years this data set, due to the way in which the data is collected, has ... -
Food Away from Home Consumption in Urban China: Household Composition and Dining Location Effects
(North Dakota State University, 2013)China has experienced dramatic changes in food industry in the last three decades, with demographics changed substantially as well. Households are becoming smaller and are expected to age soon. Overweight and obesity have ... -
A Game Theory Analysis of Firm Reaction to External Organizational Demands: The Case of Animal Welfare Standards
(North Dakota State University, 2007)There has been increasing public concern about farm animal welfare regarding transportation, slaughter, and some management practices, especially in systems where animals are confined for most of their existence. Animal ... -
Global Impact of the U.S.-China Trade War in Agricultural Sector
(North Dakota State University, 2021)This thesis examined the impact of the U.S-China trade war on the global, U.S, and China’s agricultural exports while considering the competing suppliers’ effect using a highly disaggregated HS 6-digit trade flow data in ... -
Grains, Trains and Aqua-Mobiles
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Grain shippers are constantly faced with making merchandising and logistical decisions while trying to achieve a positive net margin. They have to decide how much grain to sell and when the most opportune time to do so ... -
Hedging Default and Price Risks in Commodity Trading
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Many risk factors exist in the commodity markets, especially those related to price and quantity. Recently, the risk of counterparty default has been increasing. The purpose of this study is to develop a portfolio-hedging ... -
Hispanics Immigrants on the Fields: Is Discrimination a Barrier to Get Non-Agricultural Jobs?
(North Dakota State University, 2016)This research presents evidence supporting the existence of differences in treatments received by Hispanics job-seekers on agricultural and non-agricultural labor markets found through an experimental labor market. Hispanics ... -
A Historical Analysis of Natural Gas Demand
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis analyzes demand in the US energy market for natural gas, oil, and coal over the period of 1918-2013 and examines their price relationship over the period of 2007-2013. Diagnostic tests for time series were used; ... -
Home Purchase Restriction Impact on House Prices
(North Dakota State University, 2021)With the development of the economy, the real estate industry has increasingly become a major component of China's national economic growth. In this paper, I use a house sales transaction dataset collected from a publicly ... -
How U.S. Agriculture Adjusts to Energy Price Changes
(North Dakota State University, 2007)The primary objective of this research is to measure the impacts of rising energy prices on U.S. agriculture and to analyze the capability of U.S. agricultural producers to adjust for energy price volatility. This study ...