Dragan Miljkovic, William Nganje
Obesity is considered one of the largest public health problems in the United States today. The premise for our study is a body of results from medical research showing that sweetened foods, i.e., an...
Farmers' Preferences for Alternative Crop and Health Insurance Subsidy
William Nganje, Robert Hearne, Cole Gustafson, Michael Orth
In addition to production risks, farmers desire to balance personal risks of health care. A theoretical framework is developed for holistic health and crop insurance products that provide the...
Food Recalls and Food Safety Perceptions: The September 2006 Spinach Recall Case
Onyango, Benjamin, Miljkovic, Dragan, Hallman, William, Nganje, William, Condry, Sarah, Cuite, Cara
This paper examines public perceptions on food safety particularly relating to spinach, which was subject of countrywide recall in 2006. Results indicate that food safety perceptions may be driven by...
Kaitibie, Simeon, Nganje, William, Brorsen, B. Wade, Epplin, Francis
This study uses a Cox parametric bootstrap test to select between two specifications of the von Liebig hypothesis, a switching regression model and a non-linear mixed stochastic plateau function. The...
USING CHOICE EXPERIMENTS TO ELICIT FARMERS PREFERENCES? FOR CROP AND HEALTH INSURANCE
Nganje, William, Hearne, Robert, Orth, Michael, Gustafson, Cole
A random utility discrete choice experiments is used to determine farmers' preferences for health insurance, crop insurance, and a product that switches some portion of crop insurance subsidy to...
PRICE VARIABILITY AND FINANCIAL RISK FOR SUGAR BEET GROWERS
Nganje, William, Stoltman, Gwen
This paper develops a portfolio framework to characterize and analyze the impact of price risk faced by sugar beet growers in the Red River Valley and derives implications for capital markets. Other...
SUPPLY-SIDE RISKS AND MALTING BARLEY PROCUREMENT AND STORAGE
Johnson, Demcey, Devuyst, Eric A., Nganje, William
U.S. production of six-rowed malting barley has declined sharply over the last several years. Further, the quality of U.S. malting barley has suffered repeatedly due to disease. This has left the...
OPTIMAL STOCKING DENSITY AND FOOD SAFETY RISKS IN STEER PRODUCTION ENTERPRISE
Nganje, William, Kaitibie, Simeon, Brorsen, Wade, Epplin, Francis
Reasonably high stocking densities generally lead to high profit for steer grazing enterprises. However, higher stocking densities result in high microbial counts, creating food safety concerns,...
FOOD SAFETY RISK PERCEPTION GAP BETWEEN CONSUMERS AND PROCESSORS OF SPECIALTY MEAT
Nganje, William, Taban, Thomas
Consumers and processors of specialty meats continue to have different perceptions of food safety risk. This creates difficulties in formulating policy initiatives aimed at resolving these issues to...
THE IMPACT OF HACCP ON FACTOR DEMAND AND OUTPUT SUPPLY ELASTICITIES OF RED MEAT
Nganje, William, Mazzocco, Michael
This study uses firm-level data during the hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) implementation period (1997 - 2000) to analyze the impact of HACCP on input demand and output supply...
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE PROPOSED NORTH DAKOTA WHEAT POOL; SUMMARY
Koo, Won W., Nganje, William, Johnson, D. Demcey, Park, Joon, Taylor, Richard D.
The ND Durum Wheat Pool may provide additional revenue to durum wheat producers by raising the domestic prices in the North American market with full cooperation from the Canadian Wheat Board. The...
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE PROPOSED NORTH DAKOTA WHEAT POOL
Koo, Won W., Nganje, William, Johnson, D. Demcey, Park, Joon, Taylor, Richard D.
The ND Durum Wheat Pool may provide additional revenue to durum wheat producers by raising the domestic prices in the North American market with full cooperation from the Canadian Wheat Board. The...
STRATEGIC HEDGING FOR GRAIN PROCESSORS
Wilson, William W., Wagner, Robert, Nganje, William
Price risk management problems confronting grain processors differ somewhat from conventional motives for hedging. There are two components of this problem that are addressed in this study. One is...
VALUATION OF NEW SPRING WHEAT VARIETIES: TRADEOFFS FOR GROWERS AND END-USERS
Wilson, William W., Dahl, Bruce L., Johnson, D. Demcey, Nganje, William
Variety release decisions involve a number of tradeoffs, usually between grower and end-user characteristics as well as significant uncertainties about agronomic, quality, and economic variables. In...
FOOD SAFETY RISK PERCEPTION AND CONSUMER CHOICE OF SPECIALTY MEATS
Nganje, William, Kaitibie, Simeon
Consumer perception issues and recent microbial outbreaks in the livestock industry continue to stifle demand for specialty meats in the United States. This study was designed to explore impacts of...
VALUATION OF NEW SPRING WHEAT VARIETIES: TRADEOFFS FOR GROWERS AND END-USERS (SUMMARY)
Dahl, Bruce L., Wilson, William W., Johnson, D. Demcey, Nganje, William
Variety release decisions involve a number of tradeoffs, usually between grower and end-user characteristics as well as significant uncertainties about agronomic, quality, and economic variables. In...
FARMER EDUCATION AND ADOPTION OF SLASH AND BURN AGRICULTURE
Schuck, Eric C., Nganje, William, Yantio, Debazou, Aquach, Emmanuel
Education can play a critical role in moving farmers in developing countries away from environmentally harmful slash and burn agriculture. The present research examines the extent to which extension...
VALUE-AT-RISK AND FOOD SAFETY LOSSES IN TURKEY PROCESSING
Siaplay, Mounir, Nganje, William, Kaitibie, Simeon
Food safety risks and microbial outbreaks have significant health impacts on society as a whole, as well as economic loss to food processing firms. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control...
Food Recalls and Food Safety Perceptions: The September 2006 Spinach Recall Case
Onyango, Benjamin, Miljkovic, Dragan, Hallman, William, Nganje, William, Condry, Sarah, Cuite, Cara
This study analyzes public perceptions on food safety using a national survey conducted soon after the nationwide spinach recall (November 2006). We explore relationships between peoples' perceived...
Offsetting Behavior and the Benefits of Food Safety Policies
Nganje, William, Miljkovic, Dragan, Voica, Daniel, Onyango, Benjamin
The net effect of food policies, viewed in terms of reduction of foodborne illness, death and food related diseases from obesity, may sometimes be much smaller than the predicted effect because of...
Identifying Market Preferences for High Selenium Beef
Hovde, Scott C., Wachenheim, Cheryl J., Hearne, Robert, Nganje, William
Selenium is an element found in relatively high concentrations in crops and livestock raised on high-selenium soils located in North and South Dakota. Evidence suggests that a high-selenium diet such...
Ndembe, Elvis, Nganje, William, Miljkovic, Dragan
Foodborne disease outbreaks have a tremendous impact on society, including foodborne illnesses, hospitalizations, lost work time, and deaths. These food-safety events have a significant influence in...
FOOD SAFETY REGULATION, PRODUCT PRICING, AND PROFITABILITY: THE CASE OF HACCP
Nganje, William, Mazzocco, Michael, McKeith, Floyd
This paper assesses the impact of mandatory Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Points (HACCP) regulation on output price for small meat processors and packers and evaluates implications for...
IMPACTS OF DON IN THE MALTING BARLEY SUPPLY CHAIN: AGGREGATE COSTS AND FIRM-LEVEL RISKS
Johnson, D. Demcey, Nganje, William
DON is a toxic byproduct of fusarium head blight (FHB), a fungal disease of small grains. Beginning in 1993, a prolonged outbreak of FHB occurred in the Upper Midwest, the traditional source of most...
Economic Impact of Fusarium Head Blight in Malting Barley: Blending Margins and Firm-Level Risk
Nganje, William, Johnson, Demcey
FHB and DON present significant challenges to producers, grain elevators, and the brewing industry. Yield reductions and price discounts incurred by producers in North Dakota, Minnesota, and South...
Agro-terrorism and the Grain Handling Systems in Canada and the United States
Nganje, William, Wilson, William W., Nolan, James
The grain handling sector in Canada and the United States is vital to agriculture and trade. In a typical year on the Canadian prairies, about 140,000 producers deliver some 20 to 30 mmt of grain for...
Food Recalls and Food Safety Perceptions: The September 2006 Spinach Recall Case
Onyango, Benjamin, Miljkovic, Dragan, Hallman, William, Nganje, William, Condry, Sarah, Cuite, Cara
This paper examines public perceptions on food safety particularly relating to spinach, which was subject of countrywide recall in 2006. Results indicate that food safety perceptions may be driven by...
REPRESENTATIONS OF MULTI-ATTRIBUTE GRAIN QUALITY
Devuyst, Eric A., Johnson, D. Demcey, Nganje, William
Grain quality is typically measured via several attributes. As these attributes vary across shipments and time, grain quality can be described using multivariate probability or frequency...
Stochastic Dominance in Wheat Variety Development and Release Strategies
Dahl, Bruce L., Wilson, William W., Nganje, William
Variety development and release decisions involve tradeoffs between yields and characteristics valued by end-users, as well as uncertainties about agronomic, quality, and economic variables. In this...
Developments in portfolio management and risk programming techniques for agriculture
Calum G. Turvey, Cesar L. Escalante, William Nganje
This paper reviews various optimization approaches used to address a variety of issues related to risk in agricultural finance and farm management. The central focus is in the Markowitz mean-variance...