Southern Weed Science Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service, Stoneville, Mississippi 38776 (H.K.A., S.O.D.); Ube Industries, Ltd., Ube City, Japan (T.T.); Toxicology and Mycotoxins Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service, P.O. Box 5677, Athens, Georgia 30604-5677 (J.K.P., E.M.W., R.T.R.); Department of Chem...

The paper examines contracts in new agricultural industries that exhibit learning-bydoing. A dynamic model analyzes a contract’s effect on production decisions, as well as investments in processing capacity and learning. The results of the model are applied qualitatively to the biomass electricity industry. Submitted by: Conrad J. Choinière Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics Universit...

School of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Western Australia, Crawley, 6009 WA Institute for Rural Futures, University of New England, Armidale, 2351 NSW Department of Primary Industries, Bendigo, 3554 Victoria Faculty of Science and Agriculture, Charles Sturt University, Albury, 2640 NSW Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 7001 Tasmania...

Recent welfare reforms, designed to move adult welfare recipients into employment, promise to add 10 to 15 percent to labor forces in rural and agricultural areas of California with average annual unemployment rates of 12 to 20 percent. This paper develops and estimates a simultaneous-equation model to test the hypothesis that high unemployment and seasonality endemic to rural and agricultural ...

Chitin is a universal biopolymer that found in microbes, plants, fungi, the exoskeleton of insects, various species algae, and bottom-feeding crustaceans. This (1–4)-linked N-acetyl-ß-D-glucosamine polysaccharide can be readily processed with simple chemical procedures without putting at risk. has garnered interest as an alternative substance used medical, environmental, agricultural sectors. I...

In thermal imaging, the invisible radiation pattern of an object is converted into a visible image. This two-dimensional temperature mapping technique has potential for characterizing products during several operations of agricultural and food industries. Thermal imaging has been successfully adopted for studying plant physiology, irrigation scheduling, and yield forecasting in agricultural fie...

In many developing countries, agriculture hires at least as many workers as manufacturing industries. We investigate an economic geography model in which agricultural goods are costly to transport and in which manufactures hire labor from the local agricultural sector as unskilled labor. Our conclusions show that the parameters in the agricultural sector are crucial to determine the spatial con...

This paper addresses the functional structure of agricultural electronic marketplaces, together with associated pricing mechanisms. The analysis of transaction costs suggests that electronic commerce with intermediaries provides more efficient trading environments than electronic marketplace without intermediaries. This indicates that existing intermediary institutions will remain important for...