Team members: Marco Palma (Texas A&M Univ.) Luis Ribera (Texas A&M Univ.)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Macro and micro economic variables were collected to develop the economic model, such as interest rates, input costs, production windows and existing crop budgets.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Graduate students were selected to work on the project and were trained on how to collect data to develop representative farms.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Faculty and graduate students have IRB clearance to collect information from producers.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Developed 11 representative farms in California (3 watermelon and 3 cantaloupe), Florida (3 watermelon) and Texas (1 watermelon and 1 cantaloupe)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Estimated the economic impact of diseases to cantaloupes, fresh cucumbers, pickles, squash and watermelons.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Identifying Extension budgets in the Northeast region<\/p>\n
\u2022 Work with CucCap pathologists to estimate yield and quality changes due to CucCap work<\/p>\n
\u2022 Validate economic impact of diseases<\/p>\n
\u2022 Validate all representative farms<\/p>\n
\u2022 Economic Impacts of Diseases on Cantaloupes. Center for North American Studies, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University. Issue Brief 2018-04. September 2018.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Economic Impacts of Diseases on Fresh Cucumbers. Center for North American Studies, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University. Issue Brief 2018-01. September 2018.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Economic Impacts of Diseases on Pickles. Center for North American Studies, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University. Issue Brief 2018-02. September 2018.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Economic Impacts of Diseases on Squash. Center for North American Studies, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University. Issue Brief 2018-03. September 2018.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Economic Impacts of Diseases on Watermelons. Center for North American Studies, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University. Issue Brief 2018-05. September 2018.<\/p>\n