Strategic Options for the Virginia Peanut Industry After the 2002 Farm Bill: a Linear Programming Model

The passage of the 2002 Farm Bill and the removal of the peanut quota system revealed underlying fundamental problems in the Virginia peanut industry. Lower yields and high costs plague producers at the farm level, acreage levels continue to decline and it is doubtful that peanut production in Virg...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Licher, Monica K.
Other Authors: Agricultural and Applied Economics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35744
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11182005-111505/