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Acknowledgements
I’d like to thank the following people, without whom this dissertation would not have come to
fruition.
To Dr. Mark E. Casada and Dr. Ronaldo G. Maghirang, my co-major professors, for their
guidance, patience, encouragements, and valuable inputs in the dissertation;
To Dr. L. T. Fan and Dr. Joseph P. Harner, III, both members of my graduate committee; and
to Dr. Kristan L. Corwin, my outside committee chair, for their insights and advice to
improve the dissertation;
To U. S. Department of Agriculture (CRIS No. 5430-43440-005-00D) and Kansas
Agricultural Experiment Station, for research funding;
To Dr. Keith Behnke, Prof. Fred Fairchild, and Dr. Rommel Sulabo from Kansas State
University (KSU); Drs. Jeff Wilson, Jasper Tallada, Daniel Brabec, Tom Pearson, Paul
Armstrong, Floyd Dowell, Larry Wagner, Fred Fox, Larry Hagen, John Tatarko, and Ed
Skidmore from USDA-ARS Center for Grain and Animal Health Research (CGAHR)
(formerly Grain Marketing and Production Research Center); Drs. Oleh Baran, David Curry,
Mark Cook, Sam Wai Wong, and Stephen Cole from DEM Solutions, Inc.; Dr. Otis Walton
from Grainflow Dynamics, Inc. and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Dr. Ray
Bucklin from University of Florida; and Drs. Paul Sundell and Mathew Shane from USDA
Economic Research Service, for their technical advice and support;
To Dennis Tilley, Rhett Kaufman, Jay St. Clair, Abby Mertens, and Taylor McFall from
USDA-ARS-CGAHR; Haidee Gonzales, Li Guo, Darrell Oard, Matthew Dickson, Edna
Razote, Dr. Susana Pjesky, Henry Bonifacio, and Howell Gonzales from KSU, for their
assistance in preparing and conducting the experiments and simulations;
To Dr. Bill Schapaugh, Vernon Schaffer, Shaun Winnie, and Dustin Miller, for soybean
samples; to Jane Fox, Tim Henderson, Dr. Amelia Asperin, and Mary Rankin, for editing
parts of my manuscript; to Dr. Yoonsung Jung, Scott Kreider, Christian Mina, and Girly
Ramirez, for their statistical advice; and to Marty Courtois, Edna Razote, Henry Bonifacio,
and Betsy Edwards, for their help in the ETDR;
To my mentors, Mr. Timothy Henderson, Mr. Matheen Sait, Dr. Rick Bajema, Dr. Kimberly
Douglas-Mankin, Mrs. Judy Davis, Mrs. Mila Snider, Mrs. Sheryl Casada, Mrs. Elizabeth
Maghirang, Mrs. Michelle Edie, and Mrs. Jane Fox, for their advice, encouragements, and
support;
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