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The Effect of Food Safety and Quality on the Consumption and Price of Meat in Beijing, China
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
China's economic success has helped it become one of the largest markets in the world. As a result, the demand for agricultural commodities in China has experienced a significant increase. Increasingly affluent Chinese ...
Intermarket Trading Strategies and Risk
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The purpose of this thesis is to research methods that will be used to discover the profitability and risk of spatially arbitraging soybeans. A portfolio is used to analyze trading strategies, and the dependence measures ...
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 ...
The Role of Trade Facilitation Indicators and Genetically Engineered Restrictive Index on U.S. State Exports and Efficiency
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Trade Facilitation Indicators have become important mechanisms of monitoring the ease of trade. Another issue of rising concern is the pervasive debate on genetically engineered organisms and the development of Genetically ...
Creating a Transportation Strategy for North Dakota Exporters
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
North Dakota's transportation problem is centered on geography and volume. Being a land-locked state and not having an intermodal facility within the economic range of 150 miles from North Dakota production sites, ...
Importance of Contract Attributes on Conservation Reserve Program Enrollment Decisions in the Prairie Pothole Region
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
U.S. farmers’ interest in CRP has waned. Enrollment for 2015 was targeted at 26 million acres but as of the end of February, actual enrollment had declined to 24.6 million acres (USDA, 2015). Available studies point to ...
A Study on Consumers’ Purchasing Intention According to Message Frame Regarding Food Safety Issues
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
Three cases of food safety issue occurred in South Korea were chosen to test whether message frames influence on consumers’ purchasing intention. In addition, this study not only investigates the relationships among ...
A Study on Factors Affecting U.S. Bilateral Trade with Her Major Trading Partners
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
The objective of this study is to analyze factors affecting U.S. bilateral trade with her major trading partners, including exchange rate, GDP, economic structure, market openness, and free trade agreements. Six commodity ...
Effects of Winter Weather Risk on the Profitability of Beef Feedlots in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
This study examines the effects of management decisions, animal performance, weather risk, and economic variables on the profitability of the beef feedlot in North Dakota using data from the Dakota Feeder Calf Show and ...
Determining Farmers’ Preferences for a Working Wetlands Program
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Wetlands play important role in the ecosystem and are a link between land and water. This study investigates a voluntary working wetlands pilot program focusing on small, temporary and seasonal wetlands present on croplands. ...