Review of Agricultural Economics

Published on behalf of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association

Edited by:
George Frisvold, John Beghin and Tom Vukina

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The Review of Agricultural Economics is published jointly by the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, the Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, and the Western Agricultural Economics Association. The purpose of the Review is to provide a scholarly journal for research findings on real world issues relevant to various areas of agricultural, food, and natural resource economics, broadly defined. Published articles are expected to be of interest to applied economists working in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, both domestically and internationally.

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• Impacts of Adjusting Environmental Regulations When Enforcement Authority is Diffuse: Confined Animal Feeding Operations and Environmental Quality
  Jeffrey D. Mullen and Terrence J. Centner
  

• Cost of Meeting Manure Nutrient Application Standards in Hog Production: The Roles of EQIP and Fertilizer Offsets
  Marc Ribaudo, Andrea Cattaneo, and Jeff Agapoff
  

• Impacts of Adjusting Environmental Regulations when Enforcement Authority is Diffuse: Confined Animal Feeding Operations and Environmental Quality
  Jeffrey D. Mullen and Terrence J. Centner
  

• The Rate of Progress in Agricultural Biotechnology
  Steven Buccola and Yin Xia
  

• What You Don't Know Can Cost You: A Web-based Experiment in Price Discrimination
  Darren Hudson and Jayson Lusk
  

• Sending Farmers Back to School: The Impact of Farmer Field Schools in Indonesia
  Gershon Feder, Rinku Murgai, and Jaime Quizon
  

• Agricultural Research: Benefits and Beneficiaries of Alternative Funding Mechanisms
  Wallace E. Huffman and Richard E. Just
• Trade Liberalization and International Mergers: The Case of Barley Malting in North America
  David E. Buschena and Richard S. Gray
• Perceptions of Extension and Research Marketing Economists
  Joe L. Parcell, Ted C. Schroeder, Terry L. Kastens, and Kevin C. Dhuyvetter
• Contractual Relations, Control, and Quality in the Hog Sector David A.
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• The Evolution of World Grain Trade
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• The Oklahoma City Stockyards: Planning for the Future
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• Vertically Integrating Production Agriculture IntoValue-Added Niche Markets: The Case of Wheat Montana Farms and Bakery
  Gary W. Brester
• Natural Resource and Environmental Economics: A Retrospective View
  Emery N. Castle
• Negative Pollution Taxes for Controlling Wind Erosion
  Julie A. Bunn
• Training Agricultural Economists for the Private Sector: Are We Meeting Their Needs?
  Michael Boland and Scott Daniel
• The Role of Education in Nonpoint-Source Pollution Control Policy
  Marc O. Ribaudo and Richard D. Horan
• Industrial Hemp: China's Experience and Global Implications
  Qingbin Wang and Guanming Shi
• Strategy and Etiquette for Graduate Students Entering the Academic Job Market
  Gerald Shively, Richard Woodward, and Denise Stanley
• Who Will Our Students Be? A Futuristic View
  Richard N. Weldon, Bea Covington, Burl F. Long, and Larry J. Connor
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  Charles C. Bonwell
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  Brent A. Gloy and Paul V. Preckel
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  P. Lynn Kennedy and E. Jane Luzar