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Nogueira, Lia Busdieker, Nichole L. 2011-08-25T22:15:28Z 2011-08-25T22:15:28Z 2011-08-25T22:15:28Z 2011-08 Technology development for production methods of new varieties and for disease control has been widely explored throughout agriculture including the apple industry. Recent progress has been made to fight against apple fire blight, which cost the Michigan apple industry nearly $42 million in the 2000 fire blight outbreak. Researchers are currently working to control fire blight through development of a microencapsulated chemical and bio-control agents as well as genetically modified (GM) varieties based on current fire blight resistant varieties. This thesis uses dynamic simulations to evaluate the impact of those new technologies on consumption and production as well as world trade. Through development of a dynamic temporal and spatial partial equilibrium model, I am able to evaluate the welfare impact to the apple industry. This thesis shows the overwhelming benefits of GM technology over other methods such as microencapsulation of chemicals and biological agents where the cost-reduction benefits of the technology outweigh the yield-increase benefits. If no hesitation by producers and consumers towards GM crops existed, technology would be readily adopted and society would benefit overall. In the choice between GM and the bio-control technologies of this study, GM technology is adopted with minimal market adjustments. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2011-07-18T17:06:23Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Busdieker_Nichole.pdf: 6242588 bytes, checksum: 665a7306a913e9f80a7b785399ba2a08 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-08-25T22:15:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Busdieker_Nichole.pdf: 6240109 bytes, checksum: 5748bcb6259ef8c00b62bd2bc05a107d (MD5) license.txt: 4067 bytes, checksum: 853e6052ae453e1e4abdeb5d3477b366 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/26131 en Copyright 2011 Nichole L. Busdieker Fire blight Genetically Modified (GM) Technology Apple Welfare effects of new fire blight control methods on the U.S. apple industry Agr & Consumer Economics 1470 Agricultural & Applied Econ 5273 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S. MS: Agr & Applied Econ - UIUC 10KS5273MS