Technological changes in agriculture tend to alter the mass associated with a segment or subpopulation of the yield distribution as opposed to shifting the entire distribution upwards. We propose modeling crop yields using mixtures with embedded trend functions to account for potentially different rates of technological change in different sub-populations of the yield distribution. By doing so we can test some interesting and previously untested hypotheses about the data generating process of yields.
The 8th Annual Graduate Research Symposium in the Dept. of Food, Agricultural and Resource Ecoomics (FARE) will be held on Friday, April 27th, 2012 in Room 101, J.D. MacLachlan Building beginning at9:00 am.
The symposium is designed to give first year M.Sc. students a chance to present their research plans and received feedback.
The7th Annual Graduate Research Symposium in the Dept. of Food, Agricultural and Resource Ecoomics (FARE) will be held on Friday, April 29th, 2011 in Room 107, J.D. MacLachlan Building beginning at 9:00 am. The symposium is designed to give first year M.Sc. students a chance to present their research plans and received feedback.
Jacobus Kerkhoff's Master of Science defence will take place on Monday, April 5th, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. in Room 118, MacNaughton Building. The title of his thesis is "The Spatial Market Integration of Fresh Asparagus in Select U.S. and Canadian Terminal Markets".
Prof. Brady Deaton recently was a participant in The 16th Annual Environmental Sciences Symposium hosted by the University of Guelph on January 16, 2010. The title of his presentation was “Economics and Environmental Policy”. For symposium details please visit http://www.uoguelph.ca/~envsymp/.
