This paper estimates the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) index for the U.S. agricultural sector from the period 1970 to 2004 and decomposes the resulting TFP estimation in the Trans-logarithmic production function for U.S. agriculture for the same period to determine the residual measure that...

A Chronological Study of TFP and Agricultural Growth in U.S. Agriculture

Price transmission studies focus on how price variation at one marketing level affects the prices at other levels, either vertically or horizontally. Price movement among farms, wholesale, and retail levels is indicative of vertical price transmission. Any change in the farmer’s price is...

The number of dairy operations and cow numbers in the United States is declining. This leads to the question of whether the decline is nationwide or in specific areas of the country and what regional effects may cause a drop in cow cumbers. This question was analyzed in many ways. Using the GLM...

Determinants of stud fees are investigated for the first five years of a sire’s breeding career. In each year, more information about the quality of horse as a sire becomes available. Data is utilized with 163 sires entering the breeding shed between 2002 and 2005. Using Hedonic Price...

In this study, we evaluate the spillover effects of the recent U.S. Federal Reserve’s purchase of long-term assets (quantitative easing) on prices of Canadian commodities. The first large-scale asset purchases happened after the Great Recession, at the end of 2008, and the second...

The United States is a dominant world producer of almonds and is the dominant player in India's market, accounting for an 80-85 percent share. However, U.S. almond imports to India face high tariffs and non-tariff barriers which diminish the full potential of export volume for U.S. almonds. This...