Economics

Abstract Peanut is not listed as one of the major crops in the Bulgarian agricultural sector, but its economic and fi nancial viability is promising, but unknown. We use enterprise budgets, capital budgeting techniques, risk analysis and logistic regression models to ...

... 1. Associate Professor 2. Professor, School of Business at Auburn University, Montgomery 3. Professor and Interim-Chair, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Auburn University at Auburn Editor: Neela Badrie Date Published: May 2007 ...

... Carel Ligeon 1 Budry Bayard 2 Joy Clark 3 Curtis Jolly 4 1 Associate Professor, School of Business, Department of Economics Auburn University, Montgomery, Montgomery 36117-3596 2 Research Administrator, Ministry of Agriculture, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. ...

Catfish production has expanded at an increasing rate from 1980 to 1994. As production has adjusted over time so have prices. Catfish farmers and processors are operating at narrow net margins and knowledge of future prices and factors influencing prices would be helpful to them in decision making. Theoretical models suggest that aquaculture experiences price fluctuations which can be analysed

We evaluated the returns to catfish hybrid (CB hybrid) research using an ex‐ante approach and results from enterprise budgets and a linear programming (LP) model for an average size farm. Benefit cost (B/C) analysis and internal rates of return (IRRs) are estimated based on periods of 30 and 25 years. Lag lengths of five and eight years for research and development are considered. IRRs ranged from 10.4 to 32.6% and B/Cs from 1 to 76. All IRRs are greater than the required rates of return (RRR) and B/Cs are larger than 1. The IRRs and the B/Cs obtained from projected incremental net benefits from the LP models are larger than those obtained using the incremental benefits from the enterprise budgets. The ERRs and the B/Cs suggest that investment in CB hybrid research is worthwhile. Lag lengths for research and development affected the sizes of the IRRs and the B/Cs. The length of the adoption process has only a small effect on the IRRs and the B/Cs. Effects of the hypothesized shape of the adoption process are dependent on the time of adoption, but not length of the plateau.

Enterprise budgets and sensitivity analyses were used to compare the profitability and risks of the production of channel-blue hybrid catfish eggs to that of channel catfish. Partial budgeting technique was used to determine whether it would be feasible to change from egg to fry ...

Abstract A sample of 606 students, staff and faculty from Auburn and North Carolina A&T State universities were self-administered a questionnaire to evaluate their weekly consumption of peanut butter and products containing peanut butter. The age group ...

The U.S. catfish industry is one of the fastest growing businesses in the agricultural sector. Annual production growth rate has been above 6.0% from 1991 to 2000. While sales have increased, real prices have fallen. There is expansion of production in nontraditional producing states and reduction in growth rates in others. Yields and surface area continue to increase, while the