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2 SOUTHERN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS Volume 7, Number 2 December 1975 Published by Southern Agricultural Economics Association

3 SOUTHERN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS DECEMBER 1975 CONTENTS 1. A Non-Linear Programming Approach to Floodplain Management With Non-Structural Alternatives Jawahar L. Kaul Cleve E. Willis Household Solid Waste Associated With Food Consumption Activities Abdullah A. Saleh 3. Joseph Havlicek, Jr An Advanced Method for Economic Threshold Determination: A Positive Approach Hovav Talpaz Ray E. Frisbie Financial Implications of Waste Management Systems for Shellfish Processing 5. Ronald M. North Fred M. Lyda... Control of a Mobile Pest: The Imported Fire Ant Gerald A. Carlson... Economic Impact of Mountain Pine Beetle on Outdoor Recreation 35 E.L. Michalson Estimating the Relative Rurality of U.S. Counties 43 Blair J. Smith 8. David W. Parvin, Jr Regional Input-Output Models Adjusted by Import-Export Survey Data Bill R. Miller 9. Peng Li Liu... Measuring Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture 61 Y ao-chi Lu The Impact of Property Tax Equalization on Rural Property in Oklahoma H. Evan Drummond A Simulation Analysis of Alternative Target Price and Loan Rate Combinations Daryll E. Ray Milton H. Ericksen James W. Richardson An Enterprise Competition Analysis of Beef Production in the South James E. Nix Neil R. Martin, Jr. John W. Hubbard Assessment of Risk When Contract Crops are Included Among Other Alternatives James B. Kliebenstein John T. Scott, Jr Objectives, Motives, Business Style, and Personal History - How They Relate to Managerial Success Robert L. Oehrtman

4 SOUTHERN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS Volume 7, Number 2 December, 1975 Copyright (c) 1975 by the Southern Agricultural Economics Association EDITORIAL COUNCIL JOHN W. NIXON, University of Georgia, Editor W. LANNY BATEMAN, University of Georgia (Experiment) LARRY BAUER, University of Tennessee ROBERT L. BECK, University of Kentucky HOWARD A. CLONTS, Auburn University B.R. EDDLEMAN, University of Florida JOSEPH HAVLICEK, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University PAUL D. HUMMER, Oklahoma State University JOHN P. KEUHN, West Virginia University GENE A. MATHIA, North Carolina State University DAVID W. PARVIN, JR., Mississippi State University LEROY QUANCE, USDA, Washington, D.C. MARTIN REDFERN, University of Arkansas EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PRESIDENT....Henry J. Meenen, University of Arkansas PRESIDENT-ELECT... Richard A. King, North Carolina State University FIRSTVICE-PRESIDENT... Vernon R. Eidman, Oklahoma State University SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT.... James L. Pearson, USDA, Washington, D.C. SECRETARY-TREASURER... James H. Simpson, Mississippi State University Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics is published in July and December by the Southern Agricultural Economics Association. Membership in the SAEA, consisting of persons and organizations having a professional interest in agricultural economics, includes subscription to the journal. Regular membership dues are $6.00. Junior membership dues are $3.00. The annual subscription rate for libraries and other institutions is $ Single copies of current issues are available to individuals at a price of $5.00. Please address all subscription, membership and changes of address to James H. Simpson, Secretary-Treasurer of SAEA, Department of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University, State College, Mississippi

5 15. The Productivity of Agricultural Research and Extension Expenditures in the Southeast Larry L. Bauer Curtis R. Hancock Empirical Success Ratios in USDA Agricultural Utilization Research Harold B. Jones, Jr Interregional Price Flexibilities: An Application to the Fed Beef Industry Jamal Kalantar Russell L. Gum Elmer L. Menzie The Adequacy of the Independence of Markets Assumption in Interregional Competition Models W. Lanny Bateman Specification of the Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Consumption of the Animal and Vegetable John Adrian Raymond Daniel Beef Grading and Imperfect Competition V. James Rhodes Private Labeling of Milk and the Impact on Market Structure Robert L. Beck Ronald G. Alvis Measuring Impact on Demand of Agricultural Commodity Promotion Ronald Raikes William Vollink Estimating the Structure of Time Lags Between Wholesale and Farm Prices for Cottonseed M. Dean Ethridge Economic Impact of Federal Marketing Orders - The Florida Winter Tomato Case John R. Brooker James L. Pearson The Household Demand for Major Dairy Products in the Southern Region William T. Boehm