Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volume 17 - Preprint

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Volume 31, issue 3, 2006

Contents Pages pp. 2

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Front Material pp. 5

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Are Cooperatives Efficient When Membership is Voluntary? pp. 10

Howard Leathers

Valuing Conflicting Public Information About a New Technology: The Case of Irradiated Foods pp. 11

Matthew Rousu and Jason Shogren

Impact of Mandatory Price Reporting on Fed Cattle Market Integration pp. 12

Dustin Pendell and Ted Schroeder

Managing Dairy Profit Risk Using Weather Derivatives pp. 14

Gang Chen, Matthew C. Roberts and Cameron Thraen

Interaction Between Food Attributes in Markets: The Case of Environmental Labeling pp. 14

Gilles Grolleau and Julie Caswell

An Analysis of the Role of Tile-Drained Farmland Under Alternative Nitrogen Abatement Policies pp. 15

Daniel Petrolia and Prasanna H. Gowda

Research and Publishing: Relevance and Irreverence pp. 16

Gary W. Brester

Forecasting Crop Basis Using Historical Averages Supplemented with Current Market Information pp. 19

Mykel Taylor, Kevin Dhuyvetter and Terry L. Kastens

The Economics of Efficient Phosphorus Abatement in a Watershed pp. 20

Tiho Ancev, Arthur L. Stoecker, Daniel E. Storm and Michael J. White

Abstracts of Invited and Selected Papers and Organized Symposia, WAEA Annual Meetings, Anchorage, Alaska, June 28-30, 2006 pp. 21

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Show Quality Quarter Horse Auctions: Price Determinants and Buy-Back Practices pp. 21

Mykel Taylor, Kevin Dhuyvetter, Terry L. Kastens, Megan Douthit and Thomas Marsh

Intermediate Volatility Forecasts Using Implied Forward Volatility: The Performance of Selected Agricultural Commodity Options pp. 21

Thorsten M. Egelkraut and Philip Garcia

Measuring the Contribution of Water and Green Space Amenities to Housing Values: An Application and Comparison of Spatially Weighted Hedonic Models pp. 23

Seong-Hoon Cho, James Michael Bowker and William M. Park

Ground Water Quantity and Quality Management: Agricultural Production and Aquifer Salinization over Long Time Scales pp. 26

Keith Knapp and Kenneth A. Baerenklau

End Materials pp. 29

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Volume 31, issue 2, 2006

Cover Page and Contents pp. 4

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A General Equilibrium Analysis of Foreign and Domestic Demand Shocks Arising from Mad Cow Disease in the United States pp. 13

Stephen Devadoss, David W. Holland, Leroy Stodick and Joydeep Ghosh

Actual Media Reports on GM Foods and Chinese Consumers' Willingness to Pay for GM Soybean Oil pp. 15

Wuyang Hu, Funing Zhong and Yulian Ding

Producer Surplus Distributions in GM Crops: The Ignored Impacts of Roundup Ready Wheat pp. 16

William Wilson and Scott R. Huso

Estimating Willingness to Pay Using a Polychotomous Choice Function: An Application to Pork Products with Environmental Attributes pp. 17

Sean P. Hurley, Douglas J. Miller and James B. Kliebenstein

A Battle of Taste and Environmental Convictions for Ecolabeled Seafood: A Contingent Ranking Experiment pp. 18

Robert Johnston and Cathy Roheim

Restricted Opportunities, Personal Choices, Ineffective Policies: What Explains Food Insecurity in Oregon? pp. 19

Mark Evan Edwards, Bruce A. Weber and Stephanie L. Bernell

Water Conservation and Residential Landscapes: Household Preferences, Household Choices pp. 20

Brian H. Hurd

Designing Catastrophe Bonds to Securitize Systemic Risks in Agriculture: The Case of Georgia Cotton pp. 21

Dmitry Vedenov, James Epperson and Barry Barnett

The Value of USDA Situation and Outlook Information in Hog and Cattle Markets pp. 21

Darrel L. Good, Scott Irwin and Olga Isengildina

Estimating the Benefits of Bt Corn and Cost of Insect Resistance Management Ex Ante pp. 21

Terrance Hurley, Ines Langrock and Kenneth Ostlie

Testing for the Efficiency of a Policy Intended to Meet Objectives: General Model and Application pp. 22

Gerhard Streicher, Erwin Schmid and Klaus Salhofer

Feeding and the Equilibrium Feeder Animal Price-Weight Schedule pp. 23

David Hennessy

The Variable-Rate Input Application Decision for Multiple Inputs with Interactions pp. 23

Roland Roberts, Burton English and James Larson

The Economics of Manure Utilization: Model and Application pp. 27

Keith O. Keplinger and Larry M. Hauck

Private Agricultural R&D in the United States pp. 27

Simla Tokgoz

Volume 31, issue 01, 2006

Cover and Contents Pages pp. 4

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Do Inspection and Traceability Provide Incentives for Food Safety? pp. 13

S. Andrew Starbird and Vincent Amanor-Boadu

Entry of Alternative Fuels in a Volatile U.S. Gasoline Market pp. 13

Dmitry Vedenov, James A. Duffield and Michael E. Wetzstein

Rating Crop Insurance Policies with Efficient Nonparametric Estimators that Admit Mixed Data Types pp. 13

Jeffrey Racine and Alan Ker

Input Quality in the Sugar Beet Industry pp. 15

Michael Boland and Thomas Marsh

Portfolio Allocation and Alternative Structures of the Standard Reinsurance Agreement pp. 17

Dmitry Vedenov, Mario Miranda, Robert Dismukes and Joseph W. Glauber

Space-Time Modeling of Timber Prices pp. 17

Mo Zhou and Joseph Buongiorno

Designing a Voluntary Beef Checkoff pp. 19

Bailey Norwood, Chris Winn, Chanjin Chung and Clement Ward

A Continuum of Consumer Attitudes Toward Genetically Modified Foods in the United States pp. 21

Pierre Ganiere, Wen S. Chern and David E. Hahn

Information Acquisition and Adoption of Organic Farming Practices pp. 21

Margarita Genius, Christos J. Pantzios and Vangelis Tzouvelekas

Volume 30, issue 3, 2005

Cover and Contents Pages pp. 5

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Price Effects from an Anticipated Meatpacking Plant Opening and Unexpected Plant Closing pp. 11

Clement Ward and Jonathan T. Hornung

On Production Function Estimation with Selectivity and Risk Considerations pp. 12

Phoebe Koundouri and Celine Nauges

End Materials pp. 14

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Economic Principles for Saving the Cooperative Extension Service pp. 15

Dana Hoag

Price Discovery and Pricing Choice Under Divergent Supply Scenarios in an Experimental Market for Fed Cattle pp. 17

Clement Ward

The Demand for Food Away from Home: Do Other Preferences Compete with Our Desire to Eat Healthfully? pp. 17

Hayden Stewart, Noel Blisard, Dean Jolliffe and Sanjib Bhuyan

Asymmetric Willingness-to-Pay Distributions for Livestock Manure pp. 18

Bailey Norwood, Ryan L. Luter and Raymond E. Massey

After the Bubble: The Survival and Ownership of Internet Marketplaces for Farmers and Agribusiness pp. 18

W. Parker Wheatley and Brian Buhr

Abstracts of Invited and Selected Papers and Organized Symposia, WAEA Annual Meetings, San Francisco, California, July 6-8, 2005 pp. 19

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Market Signals Transmitted by Grid Pricing pp. 19

Heather C. Johnson and Clement Ward

Trading Behavior in a Marginal Organized Market pp. 20

Hikaru Peterson

Transaction Frequency and Hedging in Commodity Processing pp. 20

Roger A. Dahlgran

Labor-Force Heterogeneity as a Source of Agglomeration Economies in an Empirical Analysis of County-Level Determinants of Food Plant Entry pp. 22

David Davis and Gerald Schluter

Income Earning Potential versus Consumptive Amenities in Determining Ranchland Values pp. 24

L. Allen Torell, Neil R. Rimbey, Octavio Ramirez and Daniel W. McCollum

Volume 30, issue 2, 2005

Cover and Contents Pages pp. 4

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Household Fast Food Expenditures and Children's Television Viewing: Can They Really Significantly Influence Children's Dietary Quality? pp. 13

Wen You and Rodolfo Nayga

European Preferences for Beef Steak Attributes pp. 14

Glynn Tonsor, Ted Schroeder, John Fox and Arlo W. Biere

Pastoralist Economic Behavior: Empirical Results from Reindeer Herders in Northern Sweden pp. 16

Goran Bostedt

Testing for Budget Constraint Effects in a National Advisory Referendum Survey on the Kyoto Protocol pp. 17

Hui Li, Robert Berrens, Alok Bohara, Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, Carol L. Silva and David Weimer

Is Area Yield Insurance Competitive with Farm Yield Insurance? pp. 17

Barry Barnett, J. Roy Black, Yingyao Hu and Jerry R. Skees

A Bilateral Comparison of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: United States and Canada pp. 17

Timothy Richards and Paul M. Patterson

The Economics of Testing for Biotech Grain: Application to StarLink Corn pp. 17

D. Demcey Johnson and William W. Lin

Perceived Health Benefits and Soy Consumption Behavior: Two-Stage Decision Model Approach pp. 18

Wanki Moon, Siva K. Balasubramanian and Arbindra Rimal

Does It Matter Who Scouts? pp. 18

Erik Lichtenberg and Ayesha Velderman Berlind

Estimating the Potential Value of Variable Rate Nitrogen Applications: A Comparison of Spatial Econometric and Geostatistical Models pp. 19

Terrance Hurley, Kikuo Oishi and Gary L. Malzer

On the Empirical Finding of a Higher Risk of Poverty in Rural Areas: Is Rural Residence Endogenous to Poverty? pp. 20

Monica G. Fisher

Profit Patterns Across American Agriculture pp. 26

Steven Blank, Kenneth W. Erickson and Charles Moss

Volume 30, issue 01, 2005

Cover and Contents Pages pp. 4

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Reputation and Production Standards pp. 11

Jill McCluskey and Maria Loureiro

Some Simulation Results for a Green Insurance Mechanism pp. 15

Kenneth A. Baerenklau

Regulatory Approval Decisions in the Presence of Market Externalities: The Case of Genetically Modified Wheat pp. 16

William Hartley Furtan, Richard Gray and J.J. Holzman

Valuation and Efficient Allocation of GSM Export Credit Guarantees pp. 16

Matthew Diersen and Bruce Sherrick

Target Markets for Grain and Cotton Marketing Consultants and Market Information Systems pp. 17

Oscar Vergara, Keith Coble, Darren Hudson, Thomas O. Knight, George F. Patrick and Alan E. Baquet

A Meta-Analysis of Genetically Modified Food Valuation Studies pp. 17

Jayson Lusk, Mustafa Jamal, Lauren Kurlander, Maud Roucan and Lesley Taulman

Effects of Tariffs and Sanitary Barriers on High- and Low-Value Poultry Trade pp. 19

Everett Peterson and David Orden

The Overshooting Hypothesis of Agricultural Prices: The Role of Asset Substitutability pp. 23

Ching-chong Lai, Shih Wen Hu and Chih-Ping Fan

Spatial Dynamics of the Livestock Sector in the United States: Do Environmental Regulations Matter? pp. 24

Deepananda P.B. Herath, Alfons Weersink and Chantal Line Carpentier

Measuring the Long-Term Regional Benefits of Salinity Reduction pp. 25

Gregory W. Characklis, Ronald C. Griffin and Philip B. Bedient