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Steven Blank

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Faculty Emeritus

2138 Social Sciences & Humanities

Office Hours: Call for Appointment

Phone: (530) 752-0823

Fax: (530) 752-5614

sblank@primal.ucdavis.edu

Selected Publications

  • Blank, S.C. "Economic Sustainability in the Evolving World: Implications for American Agriculture and Economists." Western Economic Forum: A Journal of the Western Agricultural Economics Association 9(1)(2010):11-18.
  • Blank, S.C., K.W. Erickson, R. Nehring, and C. Hallahan. "Agricultural Profits and Farm Household Wealth: A Farm-level Analysis Using Repeated Cross-Sections." Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 41(1)(2009): 207-225.
  • Blank, S.C., K. Klonsky, K. Fuller, S. Orloff, and D.H. Putnam. "Hay Harvesting Services Respond to Market Trends." California Agriculture 63(3)(2009): 143-148.
  • Blank, S.C. "Insiders Views on Business Models Used by Small Agricultural Biotechnology Firms: Economic Implications for the Emerging Global Industry." AgBioForum 11(2)(2008): 71-81.
  • Blank, S.C. The Economics of American Agriculture: Evolution and Global Development. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe Inc, 2008.
  • Blank, S.C. and K.W. Erickson. "Agricultural Household Hedging With Off-Farm Income." Western Economics Forum 6(1)(2007): 1-13.
  • Blank, S.C., H. Boriss, L. Forero, and G. Nader. "Western Cattle Prices Vary Across Video Markets and Value-adding Programs." California Agriculture 60(3)(2006): 160-165.
  • Blank, S.C., K.W. Erickson, and C.B. Moss. "Profit Patterns Across American Agriculture." Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 30(2)(2005): 205-230.
  • Blank, S.C. "The Business of an Agricultural 'Way of Life'." Choices 20(2)(2005): 161-166.
  • Blank, S.C., K.W. Erickson, C.B. Moss, and R. Nehring. "Agricultural Profits and Farm Household Wealth." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86(5)(2004): 1299-1307
  • Blanks, S.C. and G.D. Thompson. "Can/Should/Will a Niche Become the Norm? Organic Agriculture's Short Past and Long Future." Contemporary Economic Policy 22(4)(2004):483-503.
  • Blank, S.C. "Where is American Agriculture in Its "Life Cycle"?" Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 28(3)(2003): 396-418.
  • Tadesse, D. and S.C. Blank. "Cultivar Diversity: A Neglected Risk Management Strategy." Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 28(2)(2003): 217-232.
  • Blank, S.C. "Is Agriculture a Way of Life or a Business?" Choices 17(3)(2002): 26-30.
  • Blank, S.C. "A Portfolio of Threats to American Agriculture." Contemporary Economic Policy 20(4)(2002):381-393.
  • Blank, S.C. "The Challenge to Think Big as American Agriculture Shrinks." Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 26(2)(2001): 309-325.
  • Blank, S.C. "Producers Get Squeezed Up the Farming Food Chain: A Theory of Crop Portfolio Composition and Land Use." Review of Agricultural Economics 23(2)(2001): 404-422.
  • Blank, S.C. "Globalization, Cropping Choices, and Profitability in American Agriculture." Journal of Agricultural & Applied Economics 33(2)(2001):315-326.
  • Blank, S.C., S.B. Orloff, and D.H. Putnam. "Sequential Stochastic Production Decisions for a Perennial Crop: The Yield/Quality Tradeoff for Alfalfa Hay." Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 26(1)(2001): 195-211.
  • Blank, S.C. "Is This California Agriculture's Last Century?" California Agriculture 54(4)(2000): 23-25.
  • Blank, S.C. "The End of the American Farm?" The Futurist 33(4)(1999): 22-27.
  • Blank, S.C. The End of Agriculture in the American Portfolio . Westport, CT: Quorum Books, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998.
  • Blank, S.C. "A Decade of Decline and Evolution in Agricultural Economics Enrollments and Programs: 1985-96." Review of Agricultural Economics 20(1)(1998): 155-167.
  • Blank, S.C., C.A. Carter, and J. McDonald. "Is the Market Failing Agricultural Producers Who Wish to Manage Risks?" Contemporary Economic Policy 15(1997): 103-112.
  • Blank, S.C. and J. McDonald. "Preferences for Crop Insurance When Farmers are Diversified." Agribusiness: An International Journal 12(6)(1996): 583-592.
  • Blank, S.C. and R. Venner. "Evaluating the Cost Effectiveness of Risk-Reducing Inputs: Wind Machines for Citrus." Hort Technology 5(2)(1995): 165-170.
  • Blank, S.C. "The New Risk Environment in California Agriculture." Agribusiness: An International Journal 11(2)(1995): 155-168.
  • Blank, S.C. (ed.). Financing Agriculture in California's New Risk Environment . Davis, CA: Agricultural Issues Center, University of California, 1994.
  • Thompson, R. and S.C. Blank. "Criteria Used in Agricultural Loan Analysis in California." Journal of Agricultural Lending 7(2)(1994): 12-14, 16-17.
  • Blank, S.C. and R. Thompson. California Agricultural Cooperatives: Managers' Strategies and Attitudes Toward Finance and Risk. University of California, Center for Cooperatives, 1994.
  • Thompson, R. and S.C. Blank. "Finance and Risk Characteristics of California Agricultural Cooperatives." The Cooperative Accountant 47(2)(1994): 65-70.
  • Blank, S.C. "Effects of Farmland Cash Leasing Rates on Crop Selections of Owners and Tenants: A Portfolio Analysis." Agricultural Finance Review 53(1993): 1-14.
  • Evaluating the Integration of Contiguous, Discontinuous Markets (with R. Dahlgran). American Journal of Agricultural Economics 74(1992): 469-479.
  • Blank, S.C. "The Significance of Hedging Capital Requirements." The Journal of Futures Markets 12(1)(1992): 11-18.
  • Blank, S.C. "The Robustness of Single Index Models in Crop Markets: A Multiple Index Model Test." Western Journal of Agricultural Economics 16(2)(1991): 259-267.
  • Blank, S.C. "Chaos in Futures Markets? A Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis." The Journal of Futures Markets 11(6)(1991): 711-728.
  • Gum, R.L. and S.C. Blank. "Designing Expert Systems for Effective Delivery of Extension Programming." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 72(3)(1990): 539-547.
  • Blank, S.C. "Returns to Limited Crop Diversification." Western Journal of Agricultural Economics 15(1990): 204-212.

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