Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-c4f8m Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-19T19:30:34.042Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

An Evaluation of Cost of Production Information Usage by County Agents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2016

DeeVon Bailey ,
Douglas W. Eck  and
Terrence F. Glover
DeeVon Bailey
Affiliation:
Department of Economics atUtah State University
Douglas W. Eck
Affiliation:
Department of Economics atUtah State University
Terrence F. Glover
Affiliation:
Department of Economics atUtah State University
Get access

Abstract

County agents receive cost of production information primarily from state extension services and then disseminate it to agricultural producers. A survey gathered data on agent usage of this information. A Poisson regression analysis using count data was performed to determine the factors influencing the number of times county agents directly referred to published cost of production (enterprise budget) information in a year. The agent's understanding of budget information use in management decisions, the availability of budgets, and his/her receiving the budgets in multiple forms (e.g., sheets, booklets, or software) had significant positive impacts on the use of budgets by the agent.

Keywords

enterprise budgetscounty agentsextension specialistscount data
Type
Articles
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , December 1991 , pp. 49 - 58
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1991

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Agresti, A. Analysis of Ordinal Categorical Data. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1984.Google Scholar
Boehlje, M.D. and Eidman, V.R.. Farm Management. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1983.Google Scholar
Cameron, A.C. and Trivedi, P.K.. “Econometric Models Based on County Data: Comparisons and Applications of Some Estimators.” J. Applied Econometrics, 1 (1986): 29–54.Google Scholar
Cameron, A.C. and Trivedi, P.K.. ”Regression-Based Tests for Overdispersion in the Poisson Model.” J. Econometrics, 46(1990): 347–363.Google Scholar
County Agents Directory. Niles, Illinois: Century Communications Inc., 1988.Google Scholar
Eck, Douglas W. “A National Survey of Enterprise Budget Development and Use by the Extension Service.” M.S. thesis. Utah State University. Logan, Utah, 1990.Google Scholar
Hausman, J., Hall, B.H., and Greliches, Z.. “Econometric Models of Count Data with an Application to the Patents - R & D Relationship.” Econometrica, 52(1984): 909–938.Google Scholar
Kay, R.D. Farm Management Planning, Control, and Implementation. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986.Google Scholar
Kinnear, Thomas C. and Taylor, James R.. Marketing Research: An Applied Approach New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979.Google Scholar
Klonsky, Karen. “A National Survey of Enterprise Budget Development Methods.” Paper presented at the USDA ERS Conference on Economic Accounting for Commodity Costs and Returns. Kansas City, Missouri, February 20, 1991.Google Scholar
McElroy, R.G. “Costs of Production.” Vol. 12, Major Statistical Series of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Washington, DC: USDA ERS, Agricultural Handbook No. 671. September 1987.Google Scholar
Morehart, Mitchell, Johnson, James and Shapouri, Hosein. “The National Commodity Cost and Return Estimates.” Paper presented at the USDA ERS Conference on Economic Accounting for Commodity Costs and Returns. Kansas City, Missouri. February 20, 1991.Google Scholar
Maddala, G.S. Limited Dependent and Qualitative Variables in Econometrics. London: Cambridge University Press, 1984.Google Scholar
Olson, K.D., McGrann, J.M., and Nelson, T.R.. Using and Understanding Budgeting and the Microcomputer Budget Management System. Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M, 1985.Google Scholar
Edward, Rister M., Smith, Edward G., Richardson, James W., Knutson, Ronald D., Grant, Warren R., and Thompson, Troy N.. Texas Rice Production Costs. Agricultural and Food Policy Center Working Paper 89–8. Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, November 1989.Google Scholar
Stigler, George J. The Theory of Price, 4th edition. New York: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1987.Google Scholar
Stigler, George J. The Organization of Industry. Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1970.Google Scholar
U.S. Department of Agriculture. Agricultural Statistics. Washington D.C., 1988.Google Scholar
U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Agricultural Census. Issues for various states, 1989.Google Scholar