This research attempts to explain the boom and bust of corn ethanol plants in the mid-2000s by analyzing the following question: Did investors use a simple investment approach that suggested it was wise to invest, while more complex techniques would have shown to wait? To answer this, the...

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and their negative effect on the environment is a growing concern in the world. It is estimated that agriculture is responsible for 7% of the total GHG emissions in the United States. Currently, environmental policies to regulate GHG are in place in different...

This paper provides supplemental tables to accompany Boland, M.A. and J.M. Crespi. “From Farm Management to Agricultural and Applied Economics: The Expansion of a Professional Society as Seen through a Census of Its Dissertations from 1951 to 2005.” Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy...

We examine firm profitability in the food economy and determine the source of variance of firm profitability in family-owned and non-family-owned food processing firms. The results indicate firm effects dominate in explaining the variance in the business-segment performance in the food economy....

We evaluate the persistence of incremental industry, firm-specific, and corporate-parent effects on firm profitability across the food and agribusiness sector and further analyze the persistence within four major sectors: processing, wholesale, retail, and restaurant. Results suggest that...