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Departmental Publications 1999Compiled by: Judith Dow, Librarian and Marty Duarte, Library Assistant (published as Agricultural Economics Report 603, November 2000) TABLE OF CONTENTS
Ordering Procedures vary with each type of publication. Information is at the beginning of each section. BOOKS, PARTS OF BOOKS, AND PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGSOrdering Procedures: Contact the publisher for price and ordering information, or check with your local bookstore or library. You may contact the author (first listed unless another name is CAPITALIZED), Dept. of Agricultural Economics, MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824-1039, for additional information. Batie, Sandra S. and David E. Ervin. "Flexible Incentives for Environmental Management in Agriculture: A Typology." In Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture edited by Frank Casey, Andrew Schmitz, Scott M. Swinton and David Zilberman. Natural Resource Management and Policy Series. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, pp. 55-78. Batie, Sanda S. and Carl C. Mabbs-Zeno. "Opportunity Costs of Preserving Coastal Wetlands: A Case Study of a Recreational Housing Development." In Ecosystems and Nature: Economics, Science and Policy edited by K. R. Turner, K. J. Button and P. Nijkamp. Cheltenham: E. Elgar Pub., 1999, pp. 447-451. (Reprinted from Land Economics, v. 61, no. 1 (1985), pp. 1-9.) Harsh, Stephen B. "Farm-Level Information Systems: Historical Perspective, Current Status, and Future Challenges." In Zukunftsorientierte Betriebswirtschaft und Informationstechnologien edited by Claus M. Brodersen and Detlev Möller. DLG Verlag, 1999, pp. 7-21. Hilker, James H.; D. L. Good; Brad Fuller; Stan Stevens and Bill Tierney. "Marketing Consultant." In Developing an Effective Management Team - How to Determine if You Need an Agricultural Consultant, and How to Locate and Work Most Effectively With One. Deere and Company, 1999, Chapter 5. Lloyd, James W. "Professional Development for Michigan Veterinarians." In Making Outreach Visible: A Guide to Documenting Professional Service and Outreach edited by Amy Driscoll and Ernest Lynton. Washington, DC: American Association for Higher Education, 1999. Lloyd, James W. "Why Is Everyone Milking More Cows, and Where Does the Veterinarian Fit In?" In Convention Notes, American Veterinary Medical Association, 136th Annual Convention, July 10-14, 1999. Schaumburg, IL: The Association, 1999, pp. 603-606. Chen, Heng Z.; FRANK LUPI and John P. Hoehn. "An Empirical Assessment of Multinomial Probit and Logit Models for Recreation Demand." In Valuing Recreation and the Environment: Revealed Preference Methods in Theory and Practice edited by Joseph A. Herriges and Catherine L. Kling. New York: Elgar, 1999, pp. 141-162. Liedholm, Carl and DONALD C. MEAD. Small Enterprises and Economic Development: The Dynamics of Micro and Small Enterprises. New York: Routledge, 1999. Donovan, Cynthia; ROBERT J. MYERS; David L. Tschirley and Michael T. Weber. "The Effects of Food Aid on Maize Prices in Mozambique." In Food Security, Diversification and Resource Management: Refocusing the Role of Agriculture edited by G. H. Peters and Joachim von Braun. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Conference of Agricultural Economists, Sacramento, California, August 10-16, 1997. Aldershot, Ashgate, 1999, pp. 337-347. Norris, Patricia E. and Amy P. Thurow. "Environmental Policy and Technology Adoption in Animal Agriculture." In Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture edited by Frank Casey, Andrew Schmitz, Scott M. Swinton and David Zilberman. Natural Resource Management and Policy Series. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, pp. 193-210. Love, H. Alan; Diana M. Burton, KELLIE CURRY RAPER and C. Richard Shumway. "Empirical Monopsony Power Measurement in Beef Packing." In Consolidation in the Meet Sector, proceedings of a conference, Washington, D.C., February 25-26, 1999. (Available from Food Marketing Policy Center, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Connecticut.) Boughton, Duncan; THOMAS REARDON and J. Wooldridge. "Determinants of Diversification of Urban Sahel Diets into Maize: A Contingent Valuation Study of Processed Maize Demand in Mali." In Food Security, Diversification and Resource Management: Refocusing the Role of Agriculture edited by G. H. Peters and Joachim von Braun. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Conference of Agricultural Economists, Sacramento, California, August 10-16, 1997. Aldershot, Ashgate, 1999, pp. 317-324. Schmid, A. Allan. Property, Power and Public Choice, Chinese translation. Shanghai Sanlian Publishing House, 1999. Schmid, A. Allan. "Capitalism and Socialism, Economics 144, Fall, 1956." In Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Archival Supplement no. 8 edited by Warren Samuels. Greenwich: JAI Press, 1999, pp. 79-100. Schmid, A. Allan. "Circular and Cumulative Causation." In Encyclopedia of Political Economy edited by Phillip A. O'Hara. New York: Routledge, 1999, pp. 87-90. Schmid, A. Allan. "Environmental Law and Economics." In The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics edited by Jurgen G. Backhaus. Cheltenham, U.K.: Elgar, 1999, pp. 201-205. Schmid, A. Allan. "Government, Property, Markets...In That Order...Not Government Versus Markets." In The Fundamental Interrelationships Between Government and Property edited by Nicholas Mercuro and Warren J. Samuels. Stamford: JAI Press, 1999, pp. 233-237. Schweikhardt, David B. and Bert Greenwalt. "Market Coordination in the U.S. Rice Industry: Firm Responses to Changing Demands for Product Quality." In Vertical Relationships and Coordination in the Food System edited by Giovanni Galizzi and Luciano Venturini. New York: Physica-Verlag, 1999, pp. 629-641. Casey, Frank; Andrew Schmitz; SCOTT M. SWINTON and David Zilberman, editors. Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture. Natural Resource Management and Policy Series. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. Swinton, Scott M. and Frank Casey. "From Adoption to Innovation of Environmental Technologies." In Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture edited by Frank Casey, Andrew Schmitz, Scott M. Swinton and David Zilberman. Natural Resource Management and Policy Series. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, pp. 351-359. Swinton, Scott M. and K. Q. Jones. "From Data to Information: Value of Sampling Vs. Sensing Soil Data." In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Precision Agriculture, St. Paul, Minnesota, July 19-22, 1998. Madison, WI: American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America and Soil Science Society of America, 1999, pp. 1681-1692. (Also issued as MSU Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 98-15.) Swinton, Scott M.; Mie-chin Chu and Sandra S. Batie. "Agricultural Production Contracts to Reduce Water Pollution." In Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture edited by Frank Casey, Andrew Schmitz, Scott M. Swinton and David Zilberman. Natural Resource Management and Policy Series. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, pp. 273-283. Swinton, Scott M.; Nicole N. Owens and Eileen O. van Ravenswaay. "Health Risk Information to Reduce Water Pollution." In Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture edited by Frank Casey, Andrew Schmitz, Scott M. Swinton and David Zilberman. Natural Resource Management and Policy Series. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, pp. 263-272. van Ravenswaay, Eileen O. and Jeffrey R. Blend. "Using Ecolabeling to Encourage the Adoption of Innovative Environmental Technologies in Agriculture." In Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture edited by Frank Casey, Andrew Schmitz, Scott M. Swinton and David Zilberman. Natural Resource Management and Policy Series. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, pp. 119-138. JOURNAL ARTICLESOrdering Procedures: Journals may be available at your nearest university or public library. You may contact the author (first listed unless another name is CAPITALIZED), Dept. of Agricultural Economics, MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824-1039, for additional information. In most instances, the authors will not have reprints. Black, J. Roy; Barry J. Barnett and Yingyao Hu. "Cooperatives and Capital Markets: The Case of Minnesota-Dakota Sugar Cooperatives." Principal Paper, AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11, 1999. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v. 81, no. 5 (1999), pp. 1240-1246. Dartt, Barbara A.; James W. Lloyd; Brian R. Radke; J. Roy Black and J. A. Kaneene. "A Comparison of Profitability and Economic Efficiencies Between Management Intensive Grazing and Conventionally Managed Dairies in Michigan." Journal of Dairy Science, v. 82, no. 11 (1999),.pp. 2412-2420. Leholm, Arlen; LARRY G. HAMM; Murari Suvedi; Ian Gray and Fred Poston. "Area of Expertise Teams: The Michigan Approach to Applied Research and Extension." Journal of Extension, v. 37, no. 3 (June 1999). http://www.joe.org/joe/1999june/a3.html Hanson, Steven D.; Robert J. Myers and James H. Hilker. "Hedging With Futures and Options Under a Truncated Cash Price Distribution." Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics (Southern), v. 31, no. 3 (Dec. 1999), pp. 449-459. Huirne, R. B. M. and STEPHEN B. HARSH. "The Role of Information in Dutch and U.S. Dairy Farm Management." Agrawirtschaft in der Informationsgesellschaft, v. 35 (1999), pp. 67-74. Krieger, Douglas R. and JOHN P. HOEHN. "The Economic Value of Reducing Environmental Health Risks: Contingent Valuation Estimates of the Value of Information." Journal of Environmental Management, v. 56, no. 1 (May 1999), pp. 25-34. Hoehn, John P.; Michael Kaplowitz and Douglas R. Krieger. "Investing in Water and Wastewater Infrastructure: An Analysis of Residential Benefits in Cairo, Egypt." International Review of Comparative Public Policy, v. 11 (1999), pp. 157-182. Rook, J. S.; W. E. Braselton; JAMES W. LLOYD; M. E. Shea and J. E. Shelle. "Comparison of Element Concentrations in Mare Milk and Commercial Mare Milk Replacement Products." Veterinary Clinical Nutrition, v. 6, no. 2 (1999), pp. 17-21. LLOYD, JAMES W.; L. D. Lloyd and J. B. Kaneene. "Demographic Patterns in the Importance of Veterinary Continuing Education: Administrative Factors." Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, v. 26 no. 2 (1999), pp. 28-31. Gibbons, S. N.; J. B. Kaneene; JAMES W. LLOYD and R. J. Erskine. "Evaluation of Certification in the Milk and Dairy Beef Quality Assurance Program and Associated Factors on the Risk of Having Violative Antibiotic Residues in Milk From Dairy Farms in Michigan." American Journal of Veterinary Research, v. 60, no. 10 (1999), pp. 1312-1316. Johnson-Ifearulundu, Y. J.; J. B. Kaneene and JAMES W. LLOYD. "Herd-Level Economic Analysis of the Impact of Paratuberculosis on Dairy Herds." Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, v. 214, no. 6 (1999), pp. 822-825. Stickle, J. E.; JAMES W. LLOYD; W. F. Keller and E. Cherney. "Learning Styles in Veterinary Medicine: Relation to Progression Through the Professional Curriculum and Integration into the Profession." Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, v. 26 no. 2 (1999), pp. 9-12. Judge, L. J.; P.C. Bartlett; JAMES W. LLOYD and R. J. Erskine. "Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin: Association With Reproductive Performance in Dairy Cows." Theriogenology, v. 52 (1999), pp. 481-496. O'Brien, D. J.; J. B. Kaneene; A. Getis; JAMES W. LLOYD; M. R. Rip and R. W. Leader. "Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Selected Canine Cancers in Michigan, 1964-1994." Preventive Veterinary Medicine, v. 42 (1999), pp. 1-15. Maredia, Mywish; Frederic Erbisch; Anwar Naseem; Amie Hightower; James F. Oehmke; Dave D. Weatherspoon and Christopher A. Wolf. "Public Agricultural Research and the Protection of Intellectual Property: Issues and Options." AgBioForum, v. 2, no. 3-4 (Summer/Fall 1999), pp. 247-252. http://www.agbioforum.missouri.edu/Default/Maredia.htm Oehmke, James F.; J. M. Lucas; R. C. Herner and K. McElhaney. "Selecting Students for Personal and Professional Growth Programs: The Bailey Scholars Experience." The NACTA Journal, v. 43, no. 3 (Sep. 1999), pp. 45-51. Diagana, Bocar; Francis Akindès; Kimseyinga Savadogo; THOMAS REARDON and John M. Staatz. "Effects of the CFA Franc Devaluation on Urban Food Consumption in West Africa: Overview and Cross-Country Comparisons." Food Policy, v. 24, no. 5 (October 1999), pp. 465-478. (Special Feature Papers: The Effects of the Franc CFA Devaluation on Urban Household Food Consumption in West Africa: Case Studies and Policy Implications. Guest editor, T. Reardon.) Singare, Kassim; THOMAS REARDON; Youssouf Camara; Maria Wanzala; Bino Témé and Ousmane Sanogo. "Household Consumption Responses to the Franc CFA Devaluation: Evidence from Urban Mali." Food Policy, v. 24, no. 5 (October 1999), pp. 517-534. (Special Feature Papers: The Effects of the Franc CFA Devaluation on Urban Household Food Consumption in West Africa: Case Studies and Policy Implications. Guest editor, T. Reardon.) Diagana, Bocar and THOMAS REARDON "Household Consumption Responses to the Franc CFA Devaluation: Evidence from Urban Senegal." Food Policy, v. 24, no. 5 (October 1999), pp. 495-516. (Special Feature Papers: The Effects of the Franc CFA Devaluation on Urban Household Food Consumption in West Africa: Case Studies and Policy Implications. Guest editor, T. Reardon.) Reardon, Thomas; Christopher Barrett; Valerie A. Kelly and Kimseyinga Savadogo. "Policy Reforms and Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in Africa." Development Policy Review, v. 17, no. 4 (Dec. 1999), pp. 375-396. Ricks, Donald J.; T. Woods and J. Sterns. "Supply Chain Management: Improving Vertical Coordination in Fruit Industries." Journal of Food Distribution Research, v. 30, no. 3 (1999), pp. 44-53. Robison, Lindon J. and Marcelo E. Siles. "Social Capital and Household Income Distribution in the United States: 1980, 1990." Journal of Socio-Economics, v. 28, no. 1 (1999), pp. 43-93. Schmid, A. Allen and Paul Thompson. "Against Mechanism: Methodology for an Evolutionary Economics." Principal Paper, AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11, 1999. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v. 81, no. 5 (1999), pp. 1160-1165. Renner, K. A.; SCOTT M. SWINTON and J. J. Kells. "Adaptation and Evaluation of the WEEDSIM Weed Management Model for Michigan." Weed Science, v. 47 (1999), pp. 338-348. Gebremedhin, B.; SCOTT M. SWINTON and Y. Tilahun. "Effects of Stone Terraces on Crop Yields and Farm Profitability: Results of On-Farm Research in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia." Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, v. 54, no. 3 (Third Quarter 1999), pp. 568-573. Blend, Jeffery R. and EILEEN O. VAN RAVENSWAAY. "Measuring Consumer Demand for Ecolabeled Apples." Principal Paper, AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 9-11, 1999. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v. 81, no. 5 (1999), pp. 1072-1077. Whipple, Judith; Robert Frankel and Kenneth Anselmi. "The Effect of Governance Sturcture on Performance: A Case Study of Efficient Consumer Response." Journal of Business Logistics, v. 20, no. 2 (1999), pp. 43-62. MAGAZINE AND NEWSLETTER ARTICLESOrdering Procedures: Magazines may be available at your nearest university or public library. You may contact the author (first name unless another name is CAPITALIZED), Dept. of Agricultural Economics, MSU, East Lansing, MI 44824-1039, for additional information. In most instances, the authors will not have reprints. Batie, Sandra S.; with the assistance of Mary A. Schulz and David B. Schweikhardt. "Food for Thought - Agricultural Biotechnology: Can It Pass the Consumer Test?" Michigan Farm News, v. 76, no. 1 (Jan. 15, 1999), pp. 17, 20. Batie, Sandra S. "Food for Thought - Will Business-Led Environmental Initiatives Grow in Agriculture?" Michigan Farm News, v. 76, no. 12 (Aug. 15, 1999), p. 20. Ferris, John N. (Jake). "Michigan Farm Income Outlook for 1999." Michigan Farm News, v. 76, no. 4 (Feb. 28, 1999), pp. 1, 4. (Also included in MSU Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 99-6.) Ferris, John N. (Jake). "Michigan Sugar Beet Outlook." Michigan Farm News, v. 76, no. 4 (Feb. 28, 1999), p. 9. (Also included in MSU Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 99-6.) Hamm, Larry G. "Another Record Broken for Milk Prices." Michigan's Farm and Country Journal, v. 3, no. 2 (Feb. 1999), pp. 29-30. Hamm, Larry G. "Concentration Worsens Price Volatility." The Independent, v. 4, no. 1 (Jan. 1999), p. 1. Hamm, Larry G. and Sherrill B. Nott. "Dairy Situation and Outlook." Michigan Farm News, v. 76, no. 4 (Feb. 28, 1999), pp. 7, 13. (Also included in MSU Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 99-6.) Hamm, Larry G. "Dairy Situation & Outlook." (Title varies.) In the following issues of Michigan's Farm and Country Journal, v. 3, (1999): March; April; June; August; September; November and December. Hamm, Larry G. "Market Outlook: `The Millennium Round' of WTO Negotiations." Michigan Milk Messenger, v. 82, no. 4 (Oct. 1999), pp. 8-9. Hamm, Larry G. "Market Outlook: 1999 - A Defining Year." Michigan Milk Messenger, v. 81, no. 9 (Mar. 1999), pp. 8-9. Hamm, Larry G. "Market Outlook: BFP Headed Back Down." Michigan Milk Messenger, v. 82, no. 5 (Nov. 1999), pp. 8-9. Hamm, Larry G. "Market Outlook: Changes to FMMOs Spark Economists' Debate." Michigan Milk Messenger, v. 82, no. 1 (July 1999), pp. 8-9. Hamm, Larry G. "Market Outlook: Dairy." In the following issues of Michigan Farm News, v. 76 (1999): Jan. 15; Feb. 15; Mar. 15; Apr. 30; June 15; July 15; Aug. 15; Aug. 30; Oct. 15; Nov. 15; Nov. 30; and Dec. 1999. Hamm, Larry G. "Market Outlook: Half Empty or Half Full." Michigan Milk Messenger, v. 81, no. 8 (Feb. 1999), pp. 8-9. Hamm, Larry G. "Market Outlook: It's Here!" Michigan Milk Messenger, v. 81, no. 11 (May 1999), pp. 8-9. Hamm, Larry G. "Market Outlook: Let's Not Lose the Understanding of FMMO's." Michigan Milk Messenger, v. 82, no. 2 (Aug. 1999), pp. 8-9. Hamm, Larry G. "Market Outlook: New Forms of Milk Marketing Contracts Are Inevitable." Michigan Milk Messenger, v. 81, no. 7 (Jan. 1999), p. 8-9. Hamm, Larry G. "Market Outlook: The Missing Hero." Michigan Milk Messenger, v. 82, no. 6 (Dec. 1999), pp. 8-9. Hamm, Larry G. "Market Outlook: Time to Reevaluate Milk Pricing." Michigan Milk Messenger, v. 81, no. 10 (Apr. 1999), pp. 8-9. Hamm, Larry G. "Market Outlook: Will There Only Be Two?" Michigan Milk Messenger, v. 81, no. 12 (June 1999), pp. 8-9. Hanson, Steven D. "Farm Loan Rates Rise in 1999." Michigan Farm News, v. 76, no. 4 (Feb. 28, 1999), p. 5. (Also included in MSU Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 99-6.) Hanson, Steven D. "Farmland Values Projected to Stabilize in 1999." Michigan Farm News, v. 76, no. 4 (Feb. 28, 1999), p. 7. (Also included in MSU Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 99-6.) Hilker, James H. "Market Outlook [Corn, Wheat Soybeans]. Michigan Farm News, v. 76, no. 4 (Feb. 28, 1999), p. 6 (Also included in MSU Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 99-6.) Hilker, James H. "1999 Hog and Cattle Outlook." Michigan Farm News, v. 76, no. 4 (Feb. 28, 1999), p. 8. (Also included in MSU Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 99-6.) Hilker, James H. "Market Outlook." In the following issues of Michigan Farm News, v. 76, (1999): Jan. 15; Jan. 30; Feb. 15; Mar. 15; Mar. 30; Apr. 15; Apr. 30; May 15; June 15; July 15; Aug. 15; Aug. 30; Sep. 15; Sep. 30; Oct. 15; Oct. 30; Nov. 15; Nov. 30; and Dec. 1999. Hilker, James H. "Michigan Ag Outlook." In the following issues of Michigan's Farm and Country Journal, v. 3, (1999): January; February; March; April; May; June; July; August; September; October; November and December. Kelsey, Myron P. "Tax Tips: Tax Management for Farmers." Michigan Farm News, v.76, no.19 (Nov. 30, 1999), p. 11. Manderscheid, Lester V. and Robert J. Myers. "The General Economy in 1999." Michigan Farm News, v. 76, no. 4 (Feb. 28, 1999), p. 4 (Also included in MSU Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 99-6.) Martin, Laura L. (Laura M. Cheney) and Gerald D. Schwab. "Farm Management Implications for Livestock Producers." Michigan Farm News, v. 76, no. 4 (Feb. 28, 1999), pp. 8, 13. (Also included in MSU Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 99-6.) Collier, Bret; Larry Sanders; PATRICIA E. NORRIS and Xe Van Do. "My Land, My Rights: The Rights of Society vs. the Rights of the Individual." Visions, v. 72 (Dec. 1999), pp. 9-13. (A publication of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University.) Norris, Patricia E. "Townships Can Plan for Animal Agriculture." Michigan Township News, v. 41 (July 1999), pp. 11-15. Nott, Sherrill B. "Market Outlook: 1998 Dairy Finances." Michigan Milk Messenger, v. 82, no. 3 (Sep. 1999), pp. 8-9. Nott, Sherrill B. "With High Dairy Farm Taxable Income, Tax Management Critical This Year." Michigan Farm News, v. 76, no. 20 (Dec. 1999), p. 7. Peterson, H. Christopher. "1999 Outlook for Production Inputs." Michigan Farm News, v. 76, no. 4 (Feb. 28, 1999), p. 17. (Also included in MSU Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 99-6.) Rahn, Allan P. "Industrialization Begets De-verticalization." Poultry Digest, v. 58, no. 2 (Apr./May 1999), pp. 3-4. Ricks, Donald J. "Evolving Economic Conditions in the Tart Cherry Industry." Fruit Growers News, v. 38, no. 4 (Apr. 1999), pp. 36-37. Ricks, Donald J. and Curtis Rowley. "Marketing Opportunities for the Tart Cherry Industry." Fruit Growers News, v. 38, no. 12 (Dec. 1999), pp. 45, 47. Ricks, Donald J. and Curtis Rowley. "Michigan's Changing Tart Cherry Acreage." Tart Cherry Grower Update, (1999). (A publication of the Cherry Marketing Institute, DeWitt, Michigan.) Ricks, Donald J. and James Nugent. "The MSU Fruit Area of Expertise Team Assists the Fruit Industry. Fruit Growers News, v. 38, no. 2 (Feb. 1999), p. 22. Ricks, Donald J. "Prospects for the Tart Cherry and Apple Industries." Michigan Farm News, v. 76, no. 4 (Feb. 28, 1999), pp. 11, 14. (Also included in MSU Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 99-6.) Ricks, Donald J. and Curtis Rowley. "Tart Cherry Acreage in Utah and Wisconsin." Tart Cherry Grower Update, (1999). (A publication of the Cherry Marketing Institute, DeWitt, Michigan.) Ricks, Donald J. "Trends in Michigan's Apple Acreage and Varieties." Fruit Growers News, v. 38, no. 5 (May 1999), pp. 38-39. Schwab, Gerald D. "Farm Management Implications for Crop Producers." Michigan Farm News, v. 76, no. 4 (Feb. 28, 1999), p. 9. (Also included in MSU Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 99-6.) Schweikhardt, David B. [and Sandra S. Batie]. "Trade and Policy Outlook." Michigan Farm News, v. 76, no. 4 (Feb. 28, 1999), p. 14. (Also included in MSU Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 99-6.) Swinton, Scott M. and J. Lowenberg-DeBoer. "Is Site-Specific Profitable?" Ag Consultant (Sep. 1999), pp. 37-40. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PAPERS & WORKING PAPERSOrdering Procedures: International Development Papers and Working Papers published since 1993 are available full-text at the MSU Department of Agricultural Economics World Wide Web home page: http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/papers/index.htm Paper copies may be obtained for prices noted. Mail checks payable to Michigan State University to: MSU Bulletin Office, 10-B Agriculture Hall, MSU, East Lansing, MI 49924-1039. Selected copies are available free of charge to individuals in developing countries. Detailed order information is available at: http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/papers/order.htm Ba, Moussa Batchily; John M. Staatz; Laura Farrelly; Youssouf Camara and Georges Dimithè. Atelier sur la transformation de l'agriculture en Afrique: Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, September 26 - 29, 1995. International Development Working Paper 75F, July 1999. ($7.00) http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/papers/idwp75f.pdf Ba, Moussa Batchily; John M. Staatz; Laura Farrelly; Youssouf Camara and Georges Dimithè. Workshop on Agricultural Transformation in Africa: Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, September 26 - 29, 1995. International Development Working Paper 75, April 1999. ($7.00) http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/papers/idwp75.pdf Govereh, Jones and Thomas S. Jayne. Effects of Cash Crop Production on Food Crop Productivity in Zimbabwe: Synergies or Trade-Offs? International Development Working Paper 74, February 1999. ($7.00) http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/papers/idwp74.pdf Howard, Julie; Valerie A. Kelly; Julie Stepanek; Eric W. Crawford; Mulat Demeke and Mywish Maredia. Green Revolution Technology Takes Root in Africa: The Promise and Challenge of the Ministry of Agriculture/SG2000 Experiment With Improved Cereals Technology in Ethiopia. International Development Working Paper 76, May 1999. ($9.00) http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/papers/Idwp76.pdf Jayne, Thomas S.: Mulinge Mukumbu; Munhamo Chisvo; David L. Tschirley; Michael T. Weber; Ballard Zulu; Robert Johansson; Paula Santos and David Soroko. Successes and Challenges of Food Market Reform: Experiences From Kenya, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. International Development Working Paper 72, January 1999. ($7.00) http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/papers/idwp72.pdf Maredia, Mywish; Julie Howard and Duncan Boughton; with Anwar Naseem; Maria Wanzala and Kei Kajisa. Increasing Seed System Efficiency in Africa: Concepts, Strategies and Issues. International Development Working Paper 77, December 1999. ($7.00) http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/papers/idwp77.pdf Naseem, Anwar and Valerie A. Kelly. Macro Trends and Determinants of Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa. International Development Working Paper 73, February 1999. ($7.00) (Previously issued as MSU Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 98-32.) http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/papers/idwp73.pdf Strasberg, Paul J.; Thomas S. Jayne; Takashi Yamano; James Nyoro; Daniel Karanja and John Strauss. Effects of Agricultural Commercialization on Food Crop Input Use and Productivity in Kenya. International Development Working Paper 71, January 1999. ($7.00) http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/papers/idwp71.pdf Weight, David; Valerie A. Kelly. Fertilizer Impacts on Soils and Crops of Sub-Saharan Africa. International Development Paper 21, September 1999. ($11.00) http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/papers/idp21.pdf Policy SynthesesOrdering Procedures: Food Security II Policy Syntheses are available full-text at the MSU Department of Agricultural Economics World Wide Web home page: http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/psynindx.htm Argwings-Kodhek, Gem; Thomas S. Jayne and Isaac Minde. "African Perspectives on Progress and Challenges in Agricultural Transformation." Food Security II Policy Synthesis Number 47, September 1999. de Marrule, Higino; Rui Benfica; Paul Strasberg; David L. Tschirley and Michael T. Weber. "Reflections on Poverty and Prospects for Growth in the Mozambican Rural Sector." Food Security II Policy Synthesis Number 44, July 1999. Dembélé, Niama Nango and John M. Staatz. "Services d'information de marché pour le développement de l'agro-business et la croissance economique durable au Mali." Food Security II Policy Synthesis Number 46F, September 1999. Govereh, Jones and Thomas S. Jayne. "Effects of Cash Crop Production on Food Crop Productivity in Zimbabwe: Synergies or Trade-offs?" Food Security II Policy Synthesis Number 40, February 1999. Howard, Julie; Valerie A. Kelly; Mulat Demeke; Mywish Maredia and Julie Stepanek. "Green Revolution Technology Takes Root in Africa: The Promise and Challenge of the Ministry of Agriculture/SG2000 Experiment with Improved Cereals Technology in Ethiopia." Food Security II Policy Synthesis Number 42, February 1999. Kelly, Valerie A.; Eric W. Crawford; Julie Howard; Thomas S. Jayne; John M. Staatz and Michael T. Weber. "Towards a Strategy for Improving Agricultural Inputs Markets in Africa." Food Security II Policy Synthesis Number 43, April 1999. Staatz, John M.; Pat Diskin and Nancy Estes. "Food Aid Monetization in West Africa: How to Make It More Effective." Food Security II Policy Synthesis Number 49, December 1999. Strasberg, Paul J.; Thomas S. Jayne; Takashi Yamano; James Nyoro; Daniel Karanja and John Strauss. "Effects of Agricultural Commercialization on Food Crop Input Use and Productivity in Kenya." Food Security II Policy Synthesis Number 41, February 1999. Tefft, James; John M. Staatz and Christopher Penders. "An Action Plan to Strengthen Linkages Between Agricultural Productivity Growth and Improved Childhood Nutrition." Food Security II Policy Synthesis Number 48, December 1999. Tefft, James; Niama Nango Dembélé; Josué Dioné and John M. Staatz. "Le Mali, l'Université de l'Etat de Michigan (MSU) et l'USAID: 14 ans de partenariat pour la sécurité alimentaire." Food Security II Policy Synthesis Number 45F, September 1999. Tschirley, David; Thomas S. Jayne, Mulinge Mukumbu; Munhamo Chisvo; Michael T. Weber; Ballard Zulu; Robert Johansson; Paula Santos and David Soroko. "Successes and Challenges of Food Market Reform: Experiences From Kenya, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe." Food Security II Policy Synthesis Number 39, February 1999. AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS REPORTSOrdering Procedures: Request single copies from Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Reference Room, MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824-1039. E-mail: agecon@mainlib3.lib.msu.edu Dow, Judith and Marty Duarte. Departmental Publications, 1998. Agricultural Economics Report 601. October 1999. http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/publists/dptpub98.htm Hanson, Steven D. and Gerald D. Schwab. 1999 Michigan Land Values. Agricultural Economics Report 602. November 1999. http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/aecreports/aec602.pdf AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS STAFF PAPERSOrdering Procedures: Check availability of copies by contacting the author (first name listed unless another name is CAPITALIZED), Dept. of Agricultural Economics, MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824-1039. Give complete citation including number. Some staff papers are available in full-text at the AgEcon Search World Wide Web site: (http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pubview.pl?pubid=16) If you wish to download an electronic copy, click on the title of the paper. You must have Acrobat Reader software (available free of charge from the Adobe web site) in order to view or print these documents. Batie, Sandra S. "Green Payments as Foreshadowed by EQIP." Staff Paper 99-45. (Paper prepared for the American Farmland Trust Conference, Sycamore, Illinois, July 23-24, 1998.) Batie, Sandra S. and David E. Ervin. "Biotechnology and the Environment: Issues and Linkages." Staff Paper 99-74. (An earlier version of this paper was presented at a conference on Agro-Industrialization, Globalization and Economic Development, AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11, 1999.) Batie, Sandra S.; Scott M. Swinton and Mary A. Schulz. "FQPA Implementation to Reduce Pesticide Residue Risks: Part I: Agricultural Producer Concerns." Staff Paper 99-3. (Part II issued as Staff Paper 99-46.) Wachenheim, Cheryl J.; J. ROY BLACK; M. L. Schlegel and S. R. Rust. "Economics of Alternative Stocking Densities for Direct-Seeded Central Michigan Alfalfa Pastures." Staff Paper 99-40. Crawford, Eric W. "Notes on an Analytical Framework for Enterprise Budgets in Financial and Economic Analysis." Staff Paper 99-25. Dembélé, Niama Nango and John M. Staatz. "The Impact of Market Reform on Agricultural Transformation in Mali." Staff Paper 99-29. (Paper presented at the Workshop on Agricultural Transformation, Nairobi, Kenya, June 27-30, 1999.) Dembélé, Niama Nango and John M. Staatz. "The Response of Cereals Traders to Agricultural Market Reform in Mali." Staff Paper 99-27. (Chapter for book Democracy and Development in Mali edited by R. James Bingen, David Robinson and John M. Staatz.) White, Robert and CARL K. EICHER. "NGO's and the African Farmer: A Skeptical Perspective." Staff Paper 99-1. Ferris, John N. (Jake) "An Analysis of the Impact of ENSO (El Nino/Southern Oscillation) on Global Crop Yields." (Selected Paper, AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11, 1999.) Staff Paper 99-11. Hanson, Steven D. "A Simple Framework for Determining the Fundamental Agricultural-Use Value of Michigan Farmland." Staff Paper 99-14. Hanson, Steven D. "Analysis of Alternative Payment Designs for Farmland Development Rights." Staff Paper 99-15. Hilker, James H. "1999-2000 Soybean Outlook." Staff Paper 99-42. (Paper presented at Organized Symposia, Extension Grain and Oilseed Outlook, AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11, 1999.) Hilker, James H. and Nancy Creed, coordinators. "1999 Annual Agricultural Outlook." Staff Paper 99-6. (Department of Agricultural Economics contributors: Lester V. Manderscheid; Robert J. Myers; Steven D. Hanson; David B. Schweikhardt; Sandra S. Batie; H. Christopher Peterson; James H. Hilker; John N. Ferris; Gerald D. Schwab; Laura L. Martin (Laura M. Cheney); Larry G. Hamm; Sherrill B. Nott and Donald J. Ricks.) Howard, Julie; Valerie A. Kelly; Mywish Maredia; Julie Stepanek and Eric W. Crawford. "Progress and Problems in Promoting High External-Input Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Sasakawa Global 2000 Experience in Ethiopia and Mozambique." Staff Paper 99-24. Kelsey, Myron P. and Philip Schwallier. "Cost of Producing Fresh Market Apples in Western Michigan, 1998." Staff Paper 99-43. (Expansion of MSU Extension Bulletin E-1107, September 1999.) Martin, Laura L. (Laura M. Cheney) "Navigating Production Contract Arrangements." Staff Paper 99-10. (Paper prepared for the 1999 National Pork Producers Council Pork Academy.) Moschini, Giancarlo and ROBERT J. MYERS. "Testing for Constant Hedge Ratios in Commodity Markets: A Multivariate GARCH Approach." Staff Paper 99-75. Moser, Colletta H. and Paul D. Wessen. "The `Enhancing Rural Economies' Project: Context and Purpose, Techniques and Procedures, and Experience to Date." Staff Paper 99-66. Moser, Colletta H.; Doug Woodard and Paul D. Wessen. "FRA/ERE Project I-75 Retirement Conference and Focus Groups: Rationale and Status Report." Staff Paper 99-69. Norgaard, Kurt J. "Twenty-Four Years of Farmland Preservation in Michigan, PA 116." Staff Paper 99-2. Nott, Sherrill B. "1998 Michigan Preliminary Dairy Farm Business Analysis Averages." Staff Paper 99-08. Nott, Sherrill B. "1998 Business Analysis Summary for Cash Grain Farms: 1998, Southern Michigan." Staff Paper 99-35. Nott, Sherrill B. "1998 Business Analysis Summary for Dairy Farms. 1998 Michigan Telfarm/MicroTel Data." Staff Paper 99-37. Nott, Sherrill B. "1998 Business Analysis Summary for Fruit Farms. 1998 Michigan Telfarm/MicroTel Data." Staff Paper 99-31. Nott, Sherrill B. "1998 Business Analysis Summary for General Crops Farms. Michigan Data from Telfarm/MicroTel." Staff Paper 99-38. Nott, Sherrill B. "1998 Business Analysis Summary for Swine Farms. Michigan Data from Telfarm/MicroTel." Staff Paper 99-34. Nott, Sherrill B. "1998 Michigan Preliminary Cash Grain Business Analysis for Farms South of I-96." Staff Paper 99-9. Nott, Sherrill B. "Dairy Farms in Michigan's U.P., 1998. Michigan Data from Telfarm/MicroTel, and Farm Credit Services." Staff Paper 99-36. Nott, Sherrill B. "Dairy Grazing Farms in Michigan, 1998. Michigan Data from Telfarm/MicroTel, and the Farm Credit System." Staff Paper 99-20. Nott, Sherrill B. and Jonathon C. Hampton. "1998 Business Analysis Summary for General Livestock Farms. 1998 Michigan Telfarm/MicroTel Data." Staff Paper 99-33. Oehmke, James F.; Christopher A. Wolf; Dave D. Weatherspoon; Anwar Naseem; Mywish Maredia; Kellie Curry Raper and Amie Hightower. "Cyclical Concentration and Biotech R&D Activity: A Neo-Schumpeterian Model." Staff Paper 99-60. Oehmke, James F.; Christopher A. Wolf; Dave D. Weatherspoon; Anwar Naseem; Mywish Maredia; Kellie Curry Raper and Amie Hightower. "Cyclical Concentration and Consolidation in Biotech R & D: A Neo-Schumpeterian Model." Staff Paper 99-50. Oehmke, James F.; Dave D. Weatherspoon; Christopher A. Wolf; Anwar Naseem; Mywish Maredia and Amie Hightower. "Is Agricultural Research Still A Public Good?" Staff Paper 99-49. (Paper prepared for Transitions in Agbiotech: Economics of Strategy and Policy, Washington, D.C., June 24-25, 1999.) Peterson, H. Christopher; Lindon J. Robison and Marcelo E. Siles. "The Social Capital Foundations of Trust in Global Agri-Food System Transactions." Staff Paper 99-19. Phillips, Jon C. and H. CHRISTOPHER PETERSON. "Strategic Planning and Firm Performance: A Proposed Theoretical Model for Small Agribusiness Firms." Staff Paper 99-41. Raper, Kellie Curry and H. Alan Love. "Monopsony Power in Multiple Input Markets: A Nonparametric Approach." Staff Paper 99-62. Raper, Kellie Curry. "Status of Agricultural Market Consolidation and Concentration. Testimony at Michigan Senate Agricultural Preservation Task Force Hearing, June 29, 1999." Staff Paper 99-58. Raper, Kellie Curry; Maria N. Wanzala and Rodolfo M. Nayga, Jr. "Subsistence Food Expenditures and Household Demographic Composition: A Demand Systems Analysis." Staff Paper 99-57. Reardon, Thomas; Valerie A. Kelly; David Yanggen and Eric W. Crawford. "Determinants of Fertilizer Adoption by African Farmers: Policy Analysis Framework, Illustrative Evidence, and Implications." Staff Paper 99-18. Ricks, Donald J. "State and Federal Marketing Orders Related to Michigan Fruit Industries." Staff Paper 99-55. Ricks, Donald J. "Tart Cherry Industry Export Market Development Through the Federal Marketing Order." Staff Paper 99-73. Ricks, Donald J.; Timothy Woods and James A. Sterns. "Improving Vertical Coordination of Agricultural Industries Through Supply Chain Management." Staff Paper 99-56. (A draft of this paper was submitted to the Journal of Food Distribution Research, September 1999.) Ricks, Donald J. "New Product Development Incentives Related to the Tart Cherry Marketing Order." Staff Paper 99-63. Ricks, Donald J. and Curtis Rowley. "Tart Cherry Industry Demand Expansion: Alternative Financing Arrangements." Staff Paper 99-4. Ricks, Donald J. and Philip Schwallier. "Accentuating and Maintaining Strong Linkages Between Campus Faculty and Extension Field Agents." Staff Paper 99-5. Robison, Lindon J. "A White Paper on the Relevance of Social Capital for the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR)." Staff Paper 99-59. Robison, Lindon J.; Robert J. Myers and Marcelo E. Siles. "Social Capital, the Terms of Trade, and the Distribution of Income." Staff Paper 99-22. Robison, Lindon J.; A. Allan Schmid and Marcelo E. Siles. "Is Social Capital Really Capital?" Staff Paper 99-21. Schmid, A. Allan and Paul B. Thompson. "Against Mechanism: Methodology for an Evolutionary Economics." Staff Paper 99-39. Diarra, Salifou Bakary; JOHN M. STAATZ; R. James Bingen and Niama Nango Dembélé. "The Reform of Rice Milling and Marketing in the Office Du Niger: Catalyst for an Agricultural Success Story in Mali." Staff Paper 99-26. (Chapter for book Democracy and Development in Mali edited by R. James Bingen; David Robinson and John M. Staatz.) Sterns, James A. and Donald J. Ricks. "Apple Crispness, Color and Size: Results from Consumer Taste and Visual Tests and Trade Customer Surveys." Staff Paper 99-13. Sterns, James A. and Donald J. Ricks. "Comparing Consumer and Trade Customer Preferences for Fresh Apple Characteristics." Staff Paper 99-7. Sterns, James A. and Donald J. Ricks. "Focus Groups as a Useful Approach to Agribusiness Research." Staff Paper 99-32. (An earlier draft of this paper was presented at the 1999 WCC-72 (Regional Coordinating Committee on Agribusiness Research and Education Emphasizing Competitiveness and Profitability) annual meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 27-29, 1999.) Sterns, James A. and Donald J. Ricks. "Promotional Assessments on Agricultural Imports into the U.S. - A Potential Component of Generic Demand Expansion Programs." Staff Paper 99-52. (An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Ninth World Congress of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association/IAMA, Florence, Italy, June 13-16, 1999.) Swinton, Scott M.; Sandra S. Batie and Mary A. Schulz. "FQPA Implementation to Reduce Pesticide Residue Risks: Part II: Implementation Alternatives and Strategies." Staff Paper 99-46. (Part I issued as Staff Paper 99-3.) Gebremedhin, Berhanu and SCOTT M. SWINTON. "Reconciling Food-For-Work Objectives: Resource Conservation Vs. Food Aid Targeting in Tigray, Ethiopia." Staff Paper 99-30. van Ravenswaay, Eileen O. and Jeffrey R. Blend. "Consumer Demand for Ecolabeled Apples: Results from Econometric Estimation." (Paper, AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11, 1999.) Staff Paper 99-17. Russo, Carlo; DAVE D. WEATHERSPOON; H. Christopher Peterson and Massimo Sabbatini. "Effects of Managers' Power on Capital Structure: A Study on Italian Agricultural Cooperatives." Staff Paper 99-53. Weatherspoon, Dave D.; Christopher Davis and Zacch Olorunnipa. "Analysis of Import Demand for U.S. Fresh Grapes: An Application of the Rotterdam Model." Staff Paper 99-64. Weatherspoon, Dave D.; James F. Oehmke; Christopher A. Wolf; Anwar Naseem; Mywish Maredia and Amie Hightower. "Global Implications from a North-North-South Trade Model: A Biotech Revolution." Staff Paper 99-48. (Paper prepared for the ICABR conference on The Shape of the Coming Agricultural Biotechnology Transformation: Strategic Investment and Policy Approaches from an Economic Perspective, University of Rome, June 17-19, 1999.) Weatherspoon, Dave D.; James F. Oehmke; Christopher A. Wolf; Anwar Naseem; Mywish Maredia and Amie L. Hightower. "North-North-South Ag-Biotech Policy: Implications for Growth and Trade." Staff Paper 99-51. Weatherspoon, Dave D.; James L. Seale, Jr. and Charles B. Moss. "Convergence of the G-7: A Cointegration Approach." Staff Paper 99-65 Weatherspoon, Dave D.; Julius A. Alade and Cheryl Danley. "Emerging Businesses: The South African Wine Industry Case." Staff Paper 99-54. Vlasin, Raymond; Jerry Murphy and PAUL D. WESSEN. "Building Professional Economic Development Capacity in Three Western Upper Peninsula Counties: Results of a Diagnostic Study and Follow-Up Activities." Staff Paper 99-67. Whipple, Judith and Robert Frankel. "Strategic Alliances: Creating Long Term Success." Staff Paper 99-16. Wolf, Christopher A. "Analyzing Reproductive Management Strategies on Dairy Farms." Staff Paper 99-23. Wolf, Christopher A. and Derek K. Berwald. "The Performance of an Emerging Futures Market: The BFP Contract at the New York Board of Trade." Staff Paper 99-47. Yade, Mbaye; Anne Chohin-Kuper; Valerie A. Kelly; John M. Staatz and James Tefft. "The Role of Regional Trade in Agricultural Transformation: The Case of West Africa Following the Devaluation of the CFA Franc." Staff Paper 99-28. (Paper presented at the Workshop on Agricultural Transformation, Nairobi, Kenya, June 27-30, 1999.) AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION AND MSU EXTENSION SERVICEOrdering Procedures: Price and availability requests should be directed to MSU Bulletin Office, 10-B Agriculture Hall, MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824-1039. BulletinsNorris, Patricia E. with assistance from Michael Kaplowitz; Kurt Schindler; Laura M. Cheney and Roger Bairstow. Planning and Zoning for Animal Agriculture in Michigan: An Handbook for Local Governments. MSU Extension Bulletin 2699, September 1999. Kelsey, Myron P. and Philip Schwallier. Cost of Producing Fresh Market Apples in Western Michigan, 1998. MSU Extension Bulletin E-1107, major revision, November 1999. (For detailed tables see MSU Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 99-43.) Radke, Brian R.; JAMES W. LLOYD; Stephen B. Harsh; and J. Roy Black. A Selection Rule for Prepartum Holstein Heifers to Maximize Michigan Producer Profit. MSU Agricultural Experiment Station Research Report 561, May 1999. Schwab, Gerald D.; Sherrill B. Nott and Roger Betz. Slides prepared by Robin Millsap. New Economic Realities: Taking Charge - Farm Financial Management in a Changing Environment. East Lansing, Michigan State University Extension, January 1999. (Notebook for distribution at workshops of the same title. Also available on CD-ROM.) Magazines and NewslettersBorton, Larry. "Do You Have Farmworkers?" MSU Pork Quarterly, v. 4, no. 2 (1999), p. 5. Cowley, Joel; Dan Buskirk; Geof Bednar; LAURA M. CHENEY; Dan Grooms; Howard Person and Wes Osburn. "1999 Michigan Beef Industry Priority Survey." Cattle Call (MSU Extension), v. 4, no. 4 (Dec. 1999), pp. 5-7. Martin, Laura L. (Laura M. Cheney); Spencer Burrows and Ron Bates. "Should I Keep Those Hogs For Just a Few More Days?" MSU Pork Quarterly, v. 4, no. 2 (1999), pp. 1-2. Nott, Sherrill B. "Business and Finance: 1998 Business Analysis of Michigan Dairy Farms." Michigan Dairy Review (MSU Department of Animal Science), v. 4, no. 3 (Aug. 1999), pp. 9-10. http://www.canr.msu.edu/dept/ans/Home/Dairy/Extension/august11mdr/august11mdr.pdf Benson, M. E.; R. M. Kuhl; B. D. Banks; ALLAN P. RAHN and G. C. Good. "Performance, Carcass Characteristics, Feed Efficiency and Cost of Gain Comparisions in Lambs Sired by Rams Excelling in Growth or Material Traits." Shepherd's Voice (MSU Extension), (March 1999), pp. 7-11. Wolf, Christopher A. "Michigan's Milk Market Update." (Title varies.) In the following issues of Michigan Dairy Review (MSU Department of Animal Science), v. 4 (1999): Feb.; May; Aug.; Nov. http://www.canr.msu.edu/dept/ans/Home/Dairy/Extension/41vol4no1/41mdr15/41mdr15.htm http://www.canr.msu.edu/dept/ans/Home/Dairy/Extension/may99mdr/may99mdr.pdf http://www.canr.msu.edu/dept/ans/Home/Dairy/Extension/august11mdr/august11mdr.pdf http://www.canr.msu.edu/dept/ans/Home/Dairy/Extension/novmdr7.pdf Computer Software and ManualsHarsh, Stephen B. and Myron P. Kelsey. Income Tax Management. Micro-Telplan Software Library. User's Manual. CP006: Version 14.0. MSU Extension, 1999. DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONSOrdering Procedures: Ph.D. theses are available from UMI, P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346. Phone: 800/521-0600 or 734/761-4700. Include author's first and last names, complete title, institution granting degree and year of degree. 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Plan B Paper, 1999. MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS, BOOK REVIEWS, ABSTRACTSOrdering Procedures: Check availability of copies by contacting the author (first name listed unless another name is CAPITALIZED), Dept. of Agricultural Economics, MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824-1039. Give complete citation including number. Some staff papers are available in full-text at the AgEcon Search World Wide Web site: (http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pubview.pl?pubid=16) If you wish to download an electronic copy, click on the title of the paper. You must have Acrobat Reader software (available free of charge from the Adobe web site) in order to view or print these documents. Batie, Sandra S. and Patricia Norris. "2000 Patchwork Policies: Localities Manage a Mounting National Problem." In "Smart Environmental Policy for Animal Agriculture: Possibility or Pipe Dream." 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HOEHN and Alan Randall. "Dealing with Health Concerns in Natural Resource Damage Assessment." Selected paper, AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11, 1999. Abstracted in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v. 81, no. 5 (1999), p.1318. Howard, Julie; Valerie A. Kelly; Mywish Maredia and Julie Stepanek. "Progress and Problems in Promoting High External-Input Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Sasakawa Global 2000 Experience in Ethiopia and Mozambique." Selected paper, AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11, 1999. Abstracted in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v. 81, no. 5 (1999), p. 1287. Full text available: http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/aaea99/sp99ho01.pdf Stepanek, Julie; VALERIE A. KELLY and Julie Howard. "From a Sasakawa Global 2000 Pilot Program to Sustained Increases in Agricultural Productivity: The Critical Role of Government Policy in Fostering the Ethiopian Transition." Selected paper, AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11, 1999. Abstracted in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v. 81, no. 5 (1999), p. 1314. Full text available: http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/aaea99/sp99st01.pdf Fadali, Betsy; FRANK LUPI and Douglass Shaw. "Comparing Recreation Values Calculated From Data Collected in Intercept and General Surveys." Working Paper, University of Nevada - Reno, 1999. Lupi, Frank; John P. Hoehn and Gavin C. Christie. "Valuing Non-indigenous Species Control and Native Species Restoration in Lake Huron." In Benefits and Costs in Natural Resource Planning edited by W. Douglass Shaw. Western Regional Research Publication, June 1999. Martin, Laura L. (Laura M. Cheney) "Contracting Basics: Understanding Long-term Marketing and Production Contracts." In the proceedings of the 1999 Pork Academy, Des Moines, Iowa, June 9, 1999. Lloyd, James W. and Barbara A. Dartt. "Is Veterinary Medicine Important to Michigan?" MSU College of Veterinary Medicine and Michigan Veterinary Medical Association, East Lansing, December 1999. Schaefer, Matt and ROBERT J. MYERS. "Forecasting Accuracy, Rational Expectations, and Market Efficiency in the U.S. Beef Cattle Industry." Selected paper, AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11, 1999. Abstracted in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v. 81, no. 5 (1999), p. 1298. Full text available: http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/aaea99/sp99sc05.pdf Dinopoulos, Elias and JAMES F. OEHMKE. "A Neo-Schumpeterian Model of Agricultural Innovation and Growth." Poster paper. Abstracted in Food Security, Diversification and Resource Management: Refocusing the Role of Agriculture edited by G. H. Peters and Joachim von Braun. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Conference of Agricultural Economists, Sacramento, California, August 10-16, 1997. Aldershot, Ashgate, 1999, p. 663. Oehmke, James F. "Why Foster Market-Oriented Research?" AgriForum, no. 7 (Apr. 1999), pp. 13-14. Phillips, Jon and H. CHRISTOPHER PETERSON. "Strategic Planning and Firm Performance: A Proposed Theoretical Model for Small Agribusiness Firms." Selected paper, AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11, 1999. Abstracted in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v. 81, no. 5 (1999), p.1289. Lyford, Conrad; H. CHRISTOPHER PETERSON; Donald J. Ricks and James A. Sterns. "Strategic Planning for Agricultural Industries: Addressing the Limits Inherent in Fragmentation." Staff Paper AEP-9902, Oklahoma State University, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher. "Value-Added Competitiveness and the Role of the Extension Agent." For the 1999 MSU Extension Statewide Extension Agents Meeting, March 1999. Rahn, Allan P. and Denise Smith. "Commercial Turkey Strain Performance and Meat Quality Comparisons." Handout for the 1999 Michigan Poultry Seminar, Zeeland, Michigan, February 18, 1999. Fulton, R. M.; ALLAN P. RAHN; M. W. Orth and K. D. Roberson. "Comparison of Mortality Response to Vaccination, and Incidence of Tibial Dyschondroplasia in Three Strains of Tom Turkeys." Abstracted in Poultry Science, v. 78, Supplement 1 (1999), p. 19. Rahn, Allan P.; K. D. Roberson; R. J. Balander and M. W. Orth. "Distribution Characteristics of Tom Turkey Bodyweights Over Their Growout." Abstracted in Poultry Science, v. 78, Supplement 1 (1999), p. 43. Golin, H. A; R. J. Balander; ALLAN P. RAHN and A. J. Zanella.. "Distribution of Behavior Patterns in Market Turkeys in Relation to Age and Time of Day." Abstracted in Poultry Science, v. 78, Supplement 1 (1999), p. 27. Roberson, K. D.; ALLAN P. RAHN; R. J. Balander and M. W. Orth. "Evaluation of Genetic Potential of Three Commercial Strains of Tom Turkeys." Abstracted in Poultry Science, v. 78, Supplement 1 (1999), p. 44. Smith D. M.; B. L. Booren; ALLAN P. RAHN; A. M. Booren; W. N. Osburn and K. D. Roberson. "Quality Characteristics of Breast Meat From Three Commercial Strains of Turkey." Abstracted in Poultry Science, v. 78, Supplement 1 (1999), p. 22. Noelke, Corinna and KELLIE CURRY RAPER. "Nonstructural and Statistical Nonparametric Market Power Tests: An Empirical Investigation." Selected paper, AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11, 1999. Abstracted in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v. 81, no. 5 (1999), p.1289. Full text available: http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/aaea99/sp99no01.pdf Reardon, Thomas. "Diagnostico rápido del empleo rural (agrícola y no agrícola) en el Sur de Lempira, Honduras -- con implicaciones para el proyecto FAO PROLESUR." Mimeo. Santiago de Chile: FAO Oficina Regional para America Latina y el Caribe, 1999. Berdegue, J. and THOMAS REARDON. "El Empleo Rural No-Agricola en America Latina." 1999. Whalon, M. E.; B. J. Jacobson; S. D. Rawlins; DONALD J. RICKS and Scott M. Swinton. "Agricultural Impact of the Sudden Elimination of Key Pesticides Under the Food Quality Protection Act." CAST Issue Paper No. 11. Ames, IA: Council for Agricultural Science and Technology, March 1999. http://www.cast-science.org/fqp1_ip.htm Ricks, Donald J. "Factors Affecting Tart Cherry Markets in 1999." A publication of the Cherry Marketing Institute, DeWitt, Michigan, 1999. Lyford, Conrad; DONALD J. RICKS; H. Christopher Peterson and James A. Sterns. "A Framework for Effective Industry Strategic Planning." Staff Paper AEP-9901, Oklahoma State University, 1999. Ricks, Donald J. "Positioning the Tart Cherry Industry for the New Millennium." In Annual Report of the Michigan State Horticultural Society - 1999. Morrice, MI: The Society, 1999, pp. 133-144. Perry, Gregory M. and LINDON J. ROBISON. "Personal Relationships: Do They Influence the Sale Price of Land? Selected paper, Western Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Fargo, North Dakota, July 11-14, 1999. Abstracted in Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, v.24, no. 2, (Dec. 1990), p. 586. Full text available: http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/waea99/sp99pe01.pdf Shields, Will; JOHN M. STAATZ and Niama Nango Dembélé. "Review of MSU Studies on Cereals Market Reforms in Mali." Contribution to Module 4 of the PRMC study Etude sur l'impact de la libéralisation sur le fonctionnement des filières céréalieres au Mali. Bamako, Mali, 1999. (Also available in French.) Ortíz, Oscar and SCOTT M. SWINTON. "Factores que influyen en la aplicacíon del MIP en la Región Andina." Memorias del seminario taller internacional: Manejo integrado de plagas de los principales cultivos andinos, Urubamba, Cusco, Peru, March 23-26, 1999. Urubamba, Cusco, Peru: Asociación Arariwa y Centro Internacional de la Papa, Cusco, Peru, pp. 24-29. Tothova, Monika; Preston LaFerney and H. L. Goodwin. "Production Distortions in the Slovakian Grain Sector Resulting From Agricultural Subsidies." Selected paper, AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11, 1999. Abstracted in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v. 81, no. 5 (1999), p. 1314. Full text available: http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/aaea99/sp99to01.pdf Whipple, Judith; H. Christopher Peterson and David B. Schweikhardt. "ECR Reality: Integration Through Trust in the Agri-Food Supply Chain." Poster for the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association Conference, Building Trust in the Agro-Food System, 1999. Wolf, Christopher A.; with Kevin McNew and Cameron Thraen. "Basic Strategies for an Integrated Management Approach to Feed Price and Milk Price Risk." Risk management paper for Integrated Dairy Risk Management, June 1999. Banderob, Duane G. and CHRISTOPHER A. WOLF. "Over-order Premiums and Price Wars in the Michigan Fluid Milk Market." Selected paper, AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11, 1999. Abstracted in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v. 81, no. 5 (1999), p.1282. Full text available: http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/aaea99/sp99ba02.pdf Wolf, Christopher A. "Potential Applications and Impacts of Risk Management on Dairy Farms." Risk management paper for Integrated Dairy Risk Management, June 1999. Wolf, Christopher A. and Derek Berwald. "The Potential of Dairy Futures Contracts as Risk Management Tools." Selected paper, AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11, 1999. Abstracted in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v. 81, no. 5 (1999), p. 1302. Full text available: http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/aaea99/sp99wo02.pdf > Wolf, Christopher A. "Probability and Statistical Distributions: Definitions and Examples for Dairy Farms." Risk management paper for Integrated Dairy Risk Management, June 1999. Wolf, Christopher A.; with Kevin McNew and Cameron Thraen. "Simple Strategies for Managing Feed Prices." Risk management paper for Integrated Dairy Risk Management, June 1999. ELECTRONIC OUTPUTLinks to electronic versions of print publications are included with the citations in other sections of this bibligraphy. URL's are accurate as of November 22, 2000. Web Pages for Agricultural Economics Department ClassesBatie, Sandra S. "AEC 829: Economics of Environmental Resources." http://www.msu.edu/course/aec/829/ Bernsten, Richard H. "PRM [Public Resource Management] 260: World Food, Population and Poverty." http://www.msu.edu/course/prm/260/ Cheney, Laura M. "Vertical Coordination in the U.S. Agri-Food System. ABM [Agribusiness Management]/FIM [Food Industry Management] 422." http://www.msu.edu/course/abm/422/ Crawford, Eric W. "AEC 865: Agricultural Benefit-Cost Analysis." http://www.msu.edu/user/crawfor5/865outln.htm Harsh, Stephen B. "ABM-337: Labor and Personnel Management in the Agri-Food System." http://www.msu.edu/course/abm/337/ Hoehn, John P. "Measuring Demands for Environmental and Natural Resource Services. AEC 925: Environmental and Resource Economics Research." http://www.msu.edu/course/aec/991h/ Hoehn, John P. "Advanced Environmental and Resource Economics: AEC 923." http://www.msu.edu/course/aec/923/ Myers, Robert J. "AEC 845: Commodity Market Analysis." http://www.msu.edu/course/aec/845/ Oehmke, James F. "AEC 800a: Mathematical Applications in Agricultural Economics." http://www.msu.edu/course/aec/800a/ Peterson, H. Christopher and Christine Stiles. "ABM 437: Agribusiness Strategic Management." [FSM 429: Agribusiness Management.] http://www.msu.edu/course/fsm/429/ Schmid, A. Allan and H. Christopher Peterson. "AEC 800: Foundations of Agricultural Economics." http://www.msu.edu/course/aec/800/ Schmid, A. Allan. "AEC - EC [Economics] - RD [Resource Development] 810: Institutional and Behavioral Economics." http://www.msu.edu/course/aec/810/810.htm Schmid, A. Allan. "PRM [Public Resource Management] 201: Community Economics." http://www.msu.edu/course/prm/201/ Schwab, Gerald D. "Coming and Going with Farm Business Management (FSM [Food Systems Management] 330." http://www.msu.edu/course/fsm/330/ Schweikhardt, David B. and Dave D. Weatherspoon. "Agribusiness Management 100 and Food Industry Management 100: Decision Making in the the Agri-Food System." http://www.msu.edu/course/abm/100/ Staatz, John M.; Kellie Curry Raper and Michael T. Weber. "AEC 841: Analysis of Food System Organization and Performance." http://www.msu.edu/course/aec/841/ Swinton, Scott M. AEC 855: Agricultural Production Economics Home Page." http://www.msu.edu/user/swintons/aec855.htm van Ravenswaay, Eileen O. "PRM [Public Resource Management] 255: Ecological Economics." http://www.msu.edu/course/prm/255/ van Ravenswaay, Eileen O. "PRM [Public Resource Management] 320: Environmental Economics." http://www.msu.edu/course/prm/320/ Weatherspoon, Dave D. "Agribusiness and Food Industry Sales: ABM [Agribusiness Management] 222." http://www.msu.edu/course/abm/222/2000_Fall/index.htm Faculty Home PagesBlack, J. Roy. "J. Roy Black." http://www.msu.edu/user/blackj/ Crawford, Eric W. "Eric W. Crawford." http://www.msu.edu/user/crawfor5/ Dow, Judith. "Judith Dow." http://www.lib.msu.edu/dowj/ Hoehn, John P. "John P. Hoehn." http://www.msu.edu/user/hoehn/ Jayne, Thomas S. "T. S. Jayne." http://www.msu.edu/user/jayne/ Joshi, Satish. "Satish Joshi." http://www.msu.edu/user/satish/ Lupi, Frank. "Frank Lupi." http://www.msu.edu/user/lupi/ Nott, Sherrill B. "Sherrill Nott - Extension Specialist - Agricultural Economics Dept." http://www.msu.edu/user/nott/ Rahn, Allan P. "Allan Rahn's Homepage." http://www.msu.edu/user/rahn/ Reardon, Thomas. "Thomas A. Reardon." http://www.msu.edu/user/reardon/ Schmid, A. Allan. "A. Allan Schmid." http://www.msu.edu/user/schmid/schmid2.htm Swinton, Scott M. "Scott M. Swinton." http://www.msu.edu/user/swintons/ van Ravenswaay, Eileen O. "Eileen van Ravenswaay, Professor, Environmental Economics." http://www.msu.edu/user/raven/ Whipple, Judith. "Judith M. Whipple." http://www.msu.edu/user/whipple9/ Other Electronic OutputSrivastava, Lorie; SANDRA S. BATIE and Patricia E. Norris. "The Porter Hypothesis, Property Rights, and Innovation Offsets: The Case of Southwest Michigan Pork Producers." Selected paper, AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11, 1999. http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/aaea99/sp99sr01.pdf Bernsten, Richard H. "Study Abroad for a Semester in the Philippines." http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/sa/philippines/index.htm Crawford, Eric W. "MSU Department of Agricultural Economics: Graduate Education." (Overview; Summary of Graduate Program Changes; Graduate Education Policies; Funding - General Information, Information for Prospective Students and Information for Current Students; Costs of Graduate Study; and M.S. Specialization in Agribusiness." http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/undergrad.htm Dow, Judith. "Michigan State University Agricultural Economics Reference Room." http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/branches/agecon/ Harvey, Lynn R. "State and Local Government Information." http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/government/ Hilker, James H.; Robert J. Myers; Steven D. Hanson; Chris Edge; Nancy Creed and Nicole Aldeman. "Jim Hilker's Market Outlook and Probabilistic Price Forecasts for Grain and Livestock." http://www.msu.edu/user/hilker/ Lupi, Frank and John P. Hoehn. "Economic Benefits of the Great Lakes Ecosystem." http://www.msu.edu/user/lupi/projects.htm Clark, Steven and ALLAN P. RAHN, co-editors. "Food Safety-Best Management Practices for the Production of Turkeys." Second Edition. Produced on CD-ROM by Roche Vitamins, Inc. for the National Turkey Federation, 1999. Rahn, Allan P. "Poultry AoE (Area of Expertise) Team." http://www.msue.msu.edu/poultry/ Yanggen, David and THOMAS REARDON. "The Impact of Technological Change in Agriculture on Deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon." Selected paper, AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11, 1999. http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/aaea99/sp99ya01.pdf Schmid, A. Allan. "Institutional Economics." http://www.msu.edu/user/schmid/instecon.htm Schwab, Gerald D. "New Economics Realities: Farm Financial Management." http://www.msu.edu/~schwab/new.htm Tefft, James; Nango Demélé; Josué Dioné and John M. Staatz. "The MSU Food Security Project in Mali: 14 Years of Partnership Between Mali-MSU-USAID." Food Security Policy Synthesis Number 45, 1999. http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/polysyn/no45.htm Rose, Donald; Paul Strasberg, José Jaime Jeje and DAVID L. TSCHIRLEY. "Aumento de Ingestão de Calorias Relacionada ao Aumento de Renda no Norte de Moçambique." Food Security Mozambique Flash 17P, July 1999. http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/mozambique/flash17p.pdf Tschirley, David L. and Ana Paula Santos. "The Effects of Maize Trade with Malawi on Price Levels in Mozambique: Implications for Trade and Development Policy." Research Paper 34. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Directorate of Economics, Department of Policy Analysis, Republic of Mozambique, November 1999. http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/mozambique/wps34.pdf Santos, Ana Paula and DAVID L. TSCHIRLEY. "The Effects of Maize Trade with Malawi on Price Levels in Mozambique: Implications for Trade and Development Policy." Food Security II Mozambique Flash 18E, November 1999. http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/mozambique/flash18e.pdf Rose, Donald; Paul Strasberg, José Jaime Jeje and DAVID L. TSCHIRLEY. "Higher Calorie Intakes Related to Higher Incomes in Northern Mozambique." Food Security II Mozambique Flash 17E, July 1999. http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/mozambique/flash17e.pdf Rose, Donald; Paul Strasberg, José Jaime Jeje and DAVID L. TSCHIRLEY. "Household Food Consumption in Mozambique: A Case Study in Three Northern Districts." Research Paper 33. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Directorate of Economics, Department of Policy Analysis, Republic of Mozambique, February 1999. http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/mozambique/wps33.pdf van Ravenswaay, Eileen O. "Environmental Economics Employers." http://www.msu.edu/user/raven/environmentaleconomicsemployers.htm van Ravenswaay, Eileen O. "The Relationship Between the Economy and the Environment." A textbook for PRM [Public Resource Management] 255. 1999 Edition. http://www.msu.edu/course/prm/255/textbook.htm van Ravenswaay, Eileen O. "Virtual University PRM 255 Course." http://prm255.vu.msu.edu (Requires password.) Mole, Paulo and MICHAEL T. WEBER. "The Cashew Debate in Mozambique: Are There Alternative Strategies?" Food Security II Mozambique Flash 16E, April 1999. http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/mozambique/flash16e.pdf Mole, Paulo and MICHAEL T. WEBER. "O Debate sobre o Cajú em Moçambique: Que vias Alternativas?" Food Security II Mozambique Flash 16P, April 1999. http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/mozambique/flash16p.pdf PRESENTATIONS, SPEECHES AND PAPERS READOrdering Procedures: Listings in this section indicate topics currently being addressed by the Agricultural Economics Department. To locate additional information about a topic contact the author. Batie, Sandra S., invited speaker. "Agriculture and the Environment." At the workshop, Salinas to the Sea: Where the Regulation of Land and Water Collide, Environmental Grantmakers Meeting, Monterrey, California, October 25-27, 1999. Batie, Sandra S., invited speaker. "Agro-environmental Policy and Your Future." 14th Annual Lakeview Agricultural Seminar and Trade Show, Lakeview, Michigan, February 24, 1999. Batie, Sandra S., invited speaker. "Biotechnology, Structure and Environment: Issues and Linkages." AAEA Annual Meeting, Preconference on Agro-industrialization, Globalization and International Development, Nashville, Tennessee, August 1999. Batie, Sandra S., invited speaker. "Corporate Environmental Management." American Agricultural Law Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 16, 1999. Batie, Sandra S., invited speaker. "Environmental Quality, Resource Management and Food Safety: Issues Arising From Food Production and Consumption in a Global Market." The National Symposium on the Future of American Agriculture, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, August 25-27, 1999. Batie, Sandra S. and Patricia E. Norris, invited speakers. "Federal Clean Water Objective and Animal Waste Management Policy." AAEA Organized Symposium, Implementing Animal Waste Policy - Federal, State and Private Sector Perspectives, AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11, 1999. Batie, Sandra S., invited speaker. "Getting the Big Picture: Agro-environmental issues and Watershed Management." Effective Watershed Management for a Clean Michigan, Kellogg Center, MSU, March 31, 1999. Batie, Sandra S., organizer and moderator. "New Economic Realities: Outlook and Trends." Satellite program, January 8, 1999. Batie, Sandra S. "Protecting Our Forests." Michigan Forestry Association, Davenport College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 1999. Batie, Sandra S. and Patricia E. Norris. "The Shifting Policy Context for Animal Waste Management Agriculture." Presentation at the CFARE Symposium on Smart Environmental Policy for Animal Agriculture, Washington, D.C., June 18, 1999. Batie, Sandra S. with David Ervin, invited speakers. "Will Business-led Environmental Initiatives Grow in Agriculture." MSU Department of Agricultural Economics, November 16, 1999. Bernsten, Richard H. "The Possibilities of Providing Adequate Nutrition for the World's People." Invited paper presented at the World Affairs Seminar, Population in the 21st Century: How Can We Avoid the Potential Crisis?, Cranbrook Schools, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, February 25, 1999. Bernsten, Richard H. "Social and Economic Considerations in the Design and Implementation of IPM in Developing Countries." Invited paper presented at the 1999 Short Course in Integrated Pest Management, MSU Institute of International Agriculture, July 1999. Cheney, Laura M. with Patricia E. Norris, invited speakers. "Animal Agriculture and the Local Policy Role." Workshop on Location Effects of Environmental Regulation, cosponsored by the Economic Research Service and the Farm Foundation, Washington, D.C., October 25, 1999. Cheney, Laura M. "Economic Analysis of Hog Production Systems." Presentation at the Science, Politics, and Animal Health Policy Meeting, East Lansing, Michigan, June 7, 1999. Cheney, Laura M. "Exploring the Potential for a Cull-Cow Slaughtering Facility in Michigan." Presentation made to producers interested in opportunities for beef packing facilities in Michigan, Allendale, Michigan, January 25, 1999. Cheney, Laura M. "How Bad Is It and How Bad Can It Get?" Two presentations delivered at the Michigan Pork Producers Association Pork Industry Economic Crisis Meetings, Hamilton and Holt, Michigan, January 18-19, 1999. Cheney, Laura M. "How Heavy Should I Market My Hogs? Learning to Market Hogs on the Margin Instead of on the Average." Presentation at the 1999 Michigan Pork Expo, February 4, 1999. Cheney, Laura M. "New Economic Realities: Taking Charge - Farm Financial Management in a Changing Environment." Presentation and contributions during the workshop held in Paw Paw, Michigan, March 3 and March 10, 1999. Cheney, Laura M. "Navigating Your Way Through Hog Marketing Contracts." Four presentations delivered at the 1999 Michigan Pork Producers Association Regional Meetings, Decatur, Grandville, Bridgeport and Jackson, Michigan, March 29 - April 1, 1999. Cheney, Laura M. and Kellie Curry Raper. "Producing and Marketing Livestock in the 21st Century." Presentation at Ag Action Day '99, Kalamazoo, Michigan, January 22, 1999. Cheney, Laura M., invited speaker. "Understanding Hog Marketing Contracts." 1999 Extension Swine Educators and Adult Agriculture Educators Conference, sponsored by the National Pork Producers Council, Des Moines, Iowa, September 8-10, 1999. (Also presented at the 1999 Agricultural Credit Conference, MSU, November 11, 1999.) Crawford, Eric W. "FS-II/Egerton (Tegemeo) Research on Coffee in Kenya." Presentation, session on Policy Change and Implementation of Market Reform at the international conference on Sustainable Tree Crop Development: Strengthening Africa's Competitive Position in Global Markets, organized by USAID and the Chocolate Manufacturers Association, Arlington, Virginia, October 19-21, 1999. Crawford, Eric W. "Summary of Key Findings From MSU Input-Related Research." Presentation, IFDC/USAID First Consultation Meeting of Institutions Collaborating in the Design of a Strategic Framework for Developing Private Sector Agricultural Inputs Supply Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, Washington, D.C., February 24, 1999. Dembélé, Niama Nango and John M. Staatz. "The Impact of Market Reform on Agricultural Transformation in Mali." Paper presented at the Workshop on Agricultural Transformation, Nairobi, Kenya, June 27-30, 1999. (Also issued as MSU Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 99-29.) http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/ag_transformation/atw_dembele.pdf Hamm, Larry G., planned, supported and presented. "FMMO Reform Decisions in Perspective." Satellite conference, January 8, 1999. Hamm, Larry G. "Michigan Dairy and Beyond." Presentation, Michigan Agribusiness Association, Lansing, Michigan, January 11. 1999. Hamm, Larry G. "Michigan Dairy Outlook." Presentation, Michigan Farm Credit Conference, East Lansing, Michigan, October 4, 1999. Hamm, Larry G. "The New Federal Orders." Presentation, Milk Marketing Seminar, Michigan Dairy Foods Association, Lansing, Michigan, April 20, 1999. Hamm, Larry G. "The New World Order (Disorder) in Markets." Presentation, 55th Annual Michigan Dairy Foods Conference, Crystal, Michigan, May 12, 1999. Hamm, Larry G. "Testimony" Michigan State Senate Committee on Agriculture, East Lansing, Michigan, June 29, 1999. Hamm, Larry G. "Workplace Relations: An Intricate Balance for the Bottom Line." Presentation, AAEA Annual Meetings, COSBAE Workshop, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8, 1999. Harsh, Stephen B. "Farm-Level Information Systems: Historical Perspective; Current Status; and Future Challenges. Invited paper presented at the Justus-Liebig-Universität organized research symposium, Geissen, Germany, February 1999. Harsh, Stephen B. "Identifying, Prioritizing and Implementing an Agriculturally Related Research Program in Human Resources Management." Presentation at a Conference on the Human Resources in Agriculture, Buffalo, New York, October 1999. Hilker, James H. "Agriculture Outlook." Presentation given at Alcona County, Michigan, April 3, 1999; Farm Financial Situation for Ag. Businesses, July 28, 1999; Farmer's Day, Coldwater, Michigan, February 15, 1999; and Thumb Ag Day, Ubly, Michigan, December 8, 1999. Hilker, James H. "Cattle Outlook." Presentation, Michigan Cattle Short Course, February 18-19, 1999. Hilker, James H. "Crop and Livestock Situation and Outlook." Presentation, Michigan Agricultural Credit Conference, MSU, November 4, 1999. Hilker, James H. "Crops and Livestock Outlook and Marketing." Presentation, MSU, January 28, 1999. Hilker, James H. "Crops Outlook." Presentation, Agronomy Update, MSU, December 9, 1999. Hilker, James H. "LDP's and Outlook." Presentation at Ingham County, Michigan, September 14, 1999. Hilker, James H. "Marketing and Risk Management." Presentation at Charlotte, Michigan, January 21, 1999. Hilker, James H. "Meat Outlook." Presentation, Michigan Meat Processors Conference, MSU, March 13, 1999. Hilker, James H. "1999-2000 Soybean Outlook." Paper presented at organized symposia, Extension Grain and Oilseed Outlook, AAEA Meeting, December 1999. Hilker, James H. "Outlook and Future Markets for Feeder and Stocker Cattle." Presentation, April 27, 1999. Hilker, James H. "Outlook and Marketing." Presentation at St. Joseph County, Michigan, October 5, 1999. Hilker, James H. "Risk Management and Marketing." Presentation at Monroe County, Michigan, January 29, February 26 and March 26, 1999. Hilker, James H. "Risk Management - Teach the Teachers." Presentation, MSU, September 9, 1999. Hilker, James H. "Risk Management Workshop." Presentation, various locations in Michigan, January 12-13, 15, 19, February 11, 25, and March 3, 1999. Hilker, James H. "A Second Opinion on Crops and Discussion." Paper presented at the 1999 Midwest and Great Plains and Western Outlook Conference, Colorado State University, Colorado Springs, Colorado, August 16-18, 1999. Hilker, James H. "Understanding the Agricultural Economy." Presentation, Forum on Michigan's Rural Community and Agriculture, MSU, December 16, 1999. Jeje, José Jamie; JULIE HOWARD; Paul Strasberg and Duncan Boughton. "The Potential for Productivity Increases in Cotton and Maize Systems: The Case of Northern Mozambique." Paper presented at the Workshop on Agricultural Transformation, Nairobi, Kenya, June 27-30, 1999. http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/ag_transformation/atw_jeje.PDF Nyoro, James; Mary W. Kiiru and THOMAS S. JAYNE. "Evolution of Kenya's Maize Marketing Systems in the Post-Liberalization Era." Paper presented at the Workshop on Agricultural Transformation, Nairobi, Kenya, June 27-30, 1999. http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/ag_transformation/atw_nyoro.pdf Govereh, Jones; THOMAS S. JAYNE and James Nyoro. "Smallholder Commercialization, Interlinked Markets and Food Crop Productivity: Cross-Country Evidence in Eastern and Southern Africa." Paper presented at the Workshop on Agricultural Transformation, Nairobi, Kenya, June 27-30, 1999. http://www.aec.msu.edu/agecon/fs2/ag_transformation/atw_govereh.PDF Lloyd, James W. "Dairy Health Management Economics." Presentation, Pharmacia & Upjohn Dairy Seminar, Augusta, Michigan, June 1999. Lloyd, James W.; M. Wustenberg and Barbara A. Dartt. "Dairy Production and Health Management Economics Workshop, Module #3." Presentation, Dairy Health Management Certificate Program, MSU, Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, Michigan, Februrary 5-7, 1999. Lloyd, James W. "Economics of Culling and Replacement in Dairy Production." Presentation, 136th Annual Meeting, American Veterinary Medical Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 1999. Gibbons-Burgener, S. N.; J. B. Kaneene; J. F. Leykam; JAMES W. LLOYD and R. J. Erskine. "Evaluation of the Reliability of Assays Used for On-farm Detection of Antibiotics in Individual Cow Milk." Presentation, Conference on Research Workers in Animal Diseases, Chicago, November 1999. Lloyd, James W.; Barbara A. Dartt and M. Wustenberg. "Seminar 26: Dairy Production and Health Management Economics Workshop." Presentation, American Association of Bovine Practitioners, Nashville, Tennessee, September 21-22. 1999. Lloyd, James W. "Why Is Everyone Milking More Cows, and Where Does the Veterinarian Fit In?" Presentation, 136th Annual Meeting, American Veterinary Medical Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 1999. Lupi, Frank, facilitator of group discussion on "Ecosystem Management and Joint Ventures." Presentation, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Division, in-service training, Traverse City, Michigan, March 20, 1999. Lupi, Frank. "Farming Captive Cervids: An Economic Overview of a Growing Industry." Presentation at the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Chicago, Illinois, December 8, 1999. Lupi, Frank, member of expert panel, Blue Ribbon Panel of Economists. "Economic Valuation of Great Lakes Environmental Benefits." Project sponsored by the Northeast Midwest Institute and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1999. Lupi, Frank. "Modeling Discrete Choices Using Logit and Probit." Presentation at a seminar for the Agriculture and Natural Resources Biometry Group, MSU, November 29, 1999. Lupi, Frank; John P. Hoehn and Gavin C. Christie. "A Partial Benefit-Cost Analysis of Sea Lamprey Treatment Options on the St. Mary's River." Paper read at the annual meeting of the International Association of Great Lakes Research, Cleveland, Ohio, May 26, 1999. Lupi, Frank, invited participant. "St. Marys River Decision Analysis Workshop." Detroit, Michigan, April 22-23, 1999. Lupi, Frank. "A Tale of Tails: The Role of Choice Occasions in Repeated-Logit Deman Models." Paper read at Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics conference, Ames, Iowa, September 19, 1999. Lupi, Frank. "When is Choice Set Definition an Issue?" Invited presentation at the Workshop on Choice Set Definition in Recreational Fishing Valuation Models, National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Springs, Maryland, September 9, 1999. Lupi, Frank, invited panel member. "Workshop on Choice Set Definition in Recreational Fishing Valuation Models." National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Springs, Maryland, September 9-10, 1999. Martin, Laura L. (Laura M. Cheney), invited speaker. "Industrialized Animal Agriculture: Financial, Environmental, and Social Sustainability - Framing the Issues." Conference on Consolidation in the Meat Sector, the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, and the Food Marketing Center, Washington, D.C., February 25-26, 1999. Norris, Patricia E. "Implementing the Comprehensive Plan: Tools, Techniques and Tests." Presentation for the residents of Ionia County, Portland, Michigan, September 13, 1999. Norris, Patricia E. "Land Use Issues in Michigan." Presentation for Okemos Kiwanis Club, Okemos, Michigan, April 6, 1999. Norris, Patricia E. "Land Use Management: Resource and Culture Initiatives." Presentation for Michigan Historic Preservation Network Annual Conference, Monroe, Michigan, April 23, 1999. Norris, Patricia E. "Local Audiences as Project Managers - Land Use Visioning, Planning and Decision Making." Presentation for Mason County Planning and Zoning Officials, Ludington, Michigan, March 25, 1999. Norris, Patricia E. " A Multiple-Criteria Decision Support System for Evaluating Relative Suitability of Land Areas for Animal Agriculture." Presentation at MSU Extension Manure Area of Expertise Team Retreat and In-service, Tustin, Michigan, October 1, 1999. Also presented for the Multi-State Land Use Extension Education Workgroup, Michigan City, Indiana, October 26, 1999 and the Michigan Agricultural Commission, Lansing, Michigan, December 10, 1999. Norris, Patricia E. "Preparing to Plan." Presentation for the Ionia County Planning Commission, Ionia, Michigan, October 12, 1999. Norris, Patricia E. "Planning and Zoning for Animal Agriculture." Presentation at MSU Extension Dairy and Livestock Area of Expertise Teams In-service, East Lansing, Michigan, November 3, 1999. Also presented for Mason County Planning and Zoning Officials, Ludington, Michigan, April 8, 1999. Norris, Patricia E. "Planning and Zoning for Animal Agriculture in Michigan." Presentation for the Michigan Department of Agriculture, Environmental Stewardship Division, East Lansing, November 9, 1999. Also presented to the Mecosta County Planning Commission, Land Use Subcommittee, Big Rapids, Michigan, October 11, 1999, the Ottawa County Planning Commission, West Olive, Michigan, November 3, 1999 and the Mecosta County Planning Commission, Big Rapids, Michigan, December 8, 1999. Norris, Patricia E. "Planning for Future Land Use." Presentation for residents of Ionia County, Portland, Michigan, September 8, 1999. Norris, Patricia E. "Seeking Consensus on an Animal Agriculture Plan." Presentation for the Mason County Planning Commission, Ludington, Michigan, July 1, 1999. Norris, Patricia E. "Visioning Our Future - Where Do We Begin?" Presentation for the Elba Township and Village of Ashley, Ashley, Michigan, November 16, 1999. Norris, Patricia E. "What Research Tells Us About Land Use Policy Issues." Presentation to the Michigan State House Republican Land Use Work Group, Lansing, Michigan, November 29. 1999. Nott, Sherrill B. "Agricultural and Financial Management." Workshops for Farm Service Agency borrowers. Presented at Remus and Alpena, Michigan, January and February 1999. Nott, Sherrill B. "Business Analysis Results." Presentation to farm management agents, April 23, 1999. Nott, Sherrill B. "Dairy Group Outlook." Presentation at Hart, Michigan, July 14, 1999. Nott, Sherrill B. "Dairy Management." Presentation at St. Johns, Michigan, January 14, 1999. Nott, Sherrill B. "Dairy Outlook." Presentation at Cass City, Michigan, July 28, 1999. Nott, Sherrill B. "DHIA Dairy Outlook." Presentation at Hillman, Michigan, December 15, 1999. Nott, Sherrill B. "Farm Analysis Coordination." Presentation to farm management agents, November 22, 1999. Nott, Sherrill B. "Farm Analysis Strategies." Desktop video presentation to MSU Extension Staff, Kalamazoo, January6, 1999. Nott, Sherrill B. "MPDFA on Chopper Costs." Presentation at Ithaca, Michigan, January 27, 1999. Nott, Sherrill B. "MPDFA on Labor." Presentation at Ithaca, Michigan, February 24, 1999. Nott, Sherrill B. "New Economic Realities - Taking Charge." Presentations at Ithaca, Michigan, February 3, 1999; Fremont, Michigan, March 1999; Bruce, Michigan, March and April, 1999; Escanaba, Michigan, March and April 1999; and Mass City, Michigan, April 1999. Nott, Sherrill B. with Stan Moore. "Profit Expansion Potential for Dairy Farms." Workshop presented at West Branch, Michigan, January 5, 1999; MSU, January 7, 1999; Stanton, Michigan, January 11, 1999; and Ubly, Michigan, January 28, 1999. Oehmke, James F.; Dave D. Weatherspoon; Christopher A. Wolf; Anwar Naseem; Mywish Maredia and Amie Hightower. "Is Agricultural Research Still A Public Good?" Paper presented at the Transitions in Agbiotech: Economics of Strategy and Policy Conference, Washington, D.C., June 24-25, 1999. (Issued as MSU Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 99-49.) Peterson, H. Christopher. "The Agri-Food Center Concept." Presentation at Department Chairs Meeting with MSU Extension, Williamston, Michigan, July 21, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher. "Bio-Tech Under Attack." Panel moderator and participant, Michigan Farm Bureau Annual Meeting, Grand Traverse Resort, December 2, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher. "Consumer Trends in the Agri-Food System." Presentation, North American Farmer's Direct Marketing Association Annual Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan, January 22, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher. "Cooperative Business and Financial Indicators." Presentation, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives Directors Leadership Forum, March 9, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher; Judith Whipple and David B. Schweikhardt. "ECR Reality: How to Develop and Sustain Trust." Poster, International Food and Agribusiness Management Association's 9th Annual World Food and Agribusiness Congress, Agribusiness Forum, Florence, Italy, June 14-16, 1999. http://agecon.tamu.edu/iama/1999%20Congress/Forum%20Posters_Proposals/Schweikhardt_David.PDF Peterson, H. Christopher. "The External Forces Affecting Agribusiness." Michigan Farm Bureau/MSU Agricultural Economics Supper Seminar, April 21, 1999. Also presented as the keynote address at the MACMA Annual Meeting, March 30, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher, panel moderator. "Financial Trends for Cooperatives." Cooperatives 2000 Conference, Kansas City, November 11, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher. "Forces Affecting Value-Added Agriculture." Presentation, MACMA Board Review Committee, February 17, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher. "From Basic to Advanced Cooperative Finance." Seminar on cooperative capital issues for the National Graduate Institute of Cooperative Leadership, University of Missouri, May 19, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher. "The Future Food System." Lansing Farmers Club, Okemos, Michigan, November 1, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher. "GMOs: O, Yes! Or O, No!" Presentation, Growers Meeting, Corn Belt Hybrids, November 17, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher, keynote speaker. "Making Value Added Work." Thumb Oil Producers Cooperative Annual Meeting, Ubly, Michigan, November 29, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher with Judith Whipple. "New Economic Realities: Industry Trends Affecting Michigan Farmers." CANR Chairs meeting, April 2, 1999. Also presented for MSU Extension statewide teleconference, January 8, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher; Lindon J. Robison and Marcelo Siles. "The Social Capital Foundations of Trust in Global Agri-Food System Transactions." Paper presented at the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association's 9th Annual World Food and Agribusiness Congress, Agribusiness Forum, Florence, Italy, June 14-16, 1999. (Issued as MSU Agricultural Economics Staff Paper 99-19.) http://agecon.tamu.edu/iama/1999%20Congress/Forum%20Papers_Proposals/Peterson_Chris.PDF Peterson, H. Christopher. "Strategic Management in the Food System." Seminar on strategic planning and management, USDA Cochran Fellows, April 30, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher. "Strategies for Value Added Agriculture." Seminar, Texas A&M National Top Producers Executive Program, Austin, Texas, January 20, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher, keynote speaker. "Trends in the Changing Food System." Michigan Agri-Business Association Summer Conference, Grand Traverse Resort, August 20, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher. "Trends in Value-Added." Presentation, Department of Agricultural Economics Farm Credit Conference, East Lansing, Michigan, November 4, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher. "Update on Michigan's Value-Added Cooperatives." Board Meeting for the Michigan Bankers Association, Lansing, Michigan, August 31, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher. "Value-Added Agriculture." Seminar for Agricultural Economics Faculty, University of Cassino, Terracina, Italy, June 11, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher. "Value-Added Competitiveness and the Role of the Extension Agent." Presentation, 1999 MSU Extension Statewide Extension Agents Meeting, March 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher. "Value-Added Concepts." Part of a one day workshop on value-added opportunities sponsored by Barry and Eaton County Extension, Nashville, Michigan, July 30, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher. "Value-Added Strategies for Agribusiness." Program for the Oceana County producers sponsored by MSU Extension, Hart, Michigan, February 9, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher. "Vertical Integration and Opportunities for Value-Added Cooperatives." Presentation, Farm Bureau Commodity Committees, March 3, 1999. Peterson, H. Christopher. "The What and How of Value-Added." Presentation to the Ridge Fruit Growers Association, Grand Rapids, Michigan, August 18, 1999. Rahn, Allan P. and Denise Smith. "Commercial Turkey Strain Performance and Meat Quality Comparisons." Paper presented at the 1999 Michigan Poultry Seminar, Zeeland, Michigan, February 18, 1999. Rahn, Allan P.; K. D. Roberson; R. J. Balander and M. W. Orth. "Distribution Characteristics of Tom Turkey Bodyweights Over Their Growout." Paper presented at the Poultry Science Association Annual Meeting, August 9, 1999. Love, H. Alan; Diana M. Burton, KELLIE CURRY RAPER and C. Richard Shumway. "Empirical Monopsony Power Measurement in Beef Packing." Paper presented at conference, Consolidation in the Meet Sector, Washington, D.C., February 25-26, 1999. Raper, Kellie Curry, session moderator. "Examining the Impacts of Generic Commodity Promotion." AAEA Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, August 8-11, 1999. Raper, Kellie Curry, invited testimony. "Status of Agricultural Market Consolidation and Concentration." Michigan State Senate Task Force on Agricultural Preservation, East Lansing, Michigan, June 29, 1999. Raper, Kellie Curry with Jack Allen. "Summary of Marketing Possiblities for Michigan Lamb From the Retailer Perspectives." Presentation to the M |