Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology"
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Heir Property: Legal and Cultural Dimensions of Collective Landownership in Alabama's Black Belt
(2007-05-15)
When a landowner dies without a will, his or her descendents inherit the property as a communal interest. Heir property, as it is often called, is a common form of landownership among African Americans in the rural South. ...
How will changes in Title II of the 2018 Farm Bill affect CRP Acreage?
(2019-11-11)
The 2018 Farm Bill, added new regulations under its conservation title that have made changes to various conservation programs. For the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) rental payments have been lowered to 85% of the ...
Impact Analysis of Auburn Related Services on Farmers in Alabama
(2012-05-16)
This thesis studies what factors influence farmers' decisions to use services provided by Auburn University and how these programs affected the performance of farmers in Alabama. The study is based on survey data collected ...
The Impact of Awareness of Aquatic Food and Consumers’ Beliefs About Product Attributes on Fish Consumption Behavior in China
(2016-05-02)
A five equation partially-recursive model is estimated to determine the effects of consumer awareness of farmed fish, beliefs about product attributes, and socio-economic-psychometric variables on fish consumption in three ...
Impact of Drought Stress on Transgenic Corn Seed Technologies in the United States: A Comparative Analysis
(2012-05-16)
Corn grain yield per acre has increased over 450% in the United States over the last 80 years. Continued increases in productivity may be aided by the advancement and adoption of improved transgenic corn seed varieties, ...
The Impact of Precipitation and Temperature on Honey Yield in the United States
(2020-04-14)
This thesis examines what effect climatic factors such as precipitation, maximum temperature levels, and minimum temperature levels throughout the U.S., have on honey yield. Using Bee Informed Partnership (BIP) survey data ...
Influence of Government Policy on the Foster Care Placement Gap
(2021-07-20)
In this paper, I examine the influence of child welfare licensing regulations on the foster care placement gap. The foster care placement gap measures the rate black children enter foster care compared to the rate at which ...
Internet Access, Practice Adoption, and Conservation Program Participation in Three Alabama Watersheds
(2006-12-15)
The Internet is changing many things about our society; the way we communicate, do business, and obtain information. While the Internet provides a multitude of services for most of America, questions remain about its ...
Investigating the objectives of the new owners of Alabama's Timberlands
(2013-07-17)
Alabama has over 71% of its land area covered with forests and boasts of the third largest commercial forestland area in the United States. The forest products industry is a major employer in Alabama. This industry accounts ...
Irrigation, Income Distribution, and Industrialized Agriculture in the Southeast United States
(2008-12-15)
Improved availability of irrigation water in agriculture can stabilize crop yields and therefore incomes for adopting producers. However, because of unequal distribution of access to land and water, irrigation may have ...
Legislated Incentives and Expectations
(2013-04-23)
The United States Congress passes several pieces of legislation with the intent to improve the overall livelihood of Americans and assist other nations toward economic development. This collection of essays identifies ...
Linking Rural Vendors with Urban Public Markets: Institutional Constraints and Possibilities in the Evolution of Urban Food Systems
(2007-05-15)
Public Markets are a new food retailing phenomena located in major urban centers throughout North America, presenting a means for more directly linking urban consumers and rural food producers. However, the new vision of ...
Maintaining Relevance in Agricultural Extension Programming Using Classical Extension Methods: A Social Network Analysis of the Future of Farming Project
(2022-04-27)
Rural Sociology is credited with pioneering social network analysis (SNA) to study the connections between individuals. However, the use of SNA methods has been eclipsed by urban community research and continuations of the ...
Measuring Retail Service Quality in Farm Supply Cooperatives
(2009-11-16)
This study seeks to provide management of local farm supply cooperatives with suggestions that can help them meet the service quality needs of their customer base. It was hypothesized that certain customer segments have ...
Policing Poultry: State and Market Interplay and its Ramifications in the Rural South
(2018-11-15)
This study uses qualitative data from 31 interviews and 8 months of observation to describe state and market powers in a town that is reliant on both poultry processing and the immigrant population that the industry drew ...
Portable Sawmills – A Small Scale Microenterprise Development
(2011-01-12)
A Cobb-Douglas cost function of portable sawmill industry for United States based sawmill owners was estimated using cross-sectional data with two inputs and capital. The elasticity of the output (bf) to total variable ...
Private Schools in the South: Is It About Education?
(2006-05-15)
The question of whether or not private schools provide a better education than public schools has been the study of many studies. The question is important because of the large amount of tax money that is devoted to public ...
Process, Regulation Requirements, and Financial Analysis for Transforming Rural Land to Recreational Sportfishing Waters
(2006-05-15)
This study illustrates the process and regulation requirements for transforming rural land in South Alabama into recreational waters. Moreover, the goal of this study is to evaluate the financial feasibility of addition ...
Profitability in Marketing Bred Heifers in Alabama
(2020-07-17)
In 2018, the inventory of cattle in the United States was of 94,298,000, from which almost the 7% (6,260,000) came from the Southeast (Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee) (USDA-NASS). Most cattle producers in ...
Property Value Impacts and Risks Perceptions: A Hedonic Analysis of Anniston, Alabama
(2007-05-15)
The city of Anniston, and to a larger extent Calhoun County, Alabama, has been affected by two major types of environmental disamenities: polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) released into the soils and waterways, and the ...