1999-12 PAER

December 15, 1999

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  • Responding to Financial Stress What are the Options?
  • Recreation Demand at Indiana State Parks
  • GPS Based Guidance Systems for Farmers
  • Private Property: Rights, Responsibilities, & Limitations

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Responding to Financial Stress What are the Options?

Michael Boehlje, Professor; Craig Dobbins, Professor; Ken Foster, Associate Professor; and Alan Miller, Farm Business Management Specialist

Recreation Demand at Indiana State Parks

Jeremy Emmert, Undergraduate Student and Gerald Shively,* Assistant Professor

GPS Based Guidance Systems for Farmers

Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer, Professor

Private Property: Rights, Responsibilities, & Limitations

Jesse J. Richardson Jr.,* Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech and Gerald A. Harrison,** Extension Economist

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