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insurance program for corn, soybean, and wheat farmers in IL, MN, and SD. Additionally, we examine whether receiving benefits …
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This study analyzes the potential impact of climate change on China's corn, wheat, and rice, domestic agricultural …
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risk decreasing. On this basis, insurance premiums for corn growers in the United States who plant approved hybrids have … from experimental field trials of corn hybrids by the State Agricultural Extension Services of ten universities over 20 … years, whether the presence in a corn hybrid of a GM trait, or a combination of these traits, is likely to increase or …
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In this paper we study U.S. wheat farmers’ willingness to pay for near infrared (NIR) sensor that can segregates wheat … grains according to their protein concentration. We first develop a microeconomic optimization model of wheat farmers …’ segregating and commingling decisions. Then we use U.S. wheat prices and stocks to estimate a wheat protein stock demand system …
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, CBOT wheat and corn in Toledo/Maumee, corn in Chicago, and soybeans at almost all locations. …We investigate storage in the presence of backwardation and the existence of the Working curve for CBOT corn, soybeans …, and wheat markets and the KCBOT wheat market using recent data, 1990-2010. Incorporating Telser’s concept of the cost of …
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moments of the expected terminal distribution of futures price. We use times and sales data for corn futures and options for … resolution of uncertainty in corn supply is resolved between late June and middle of October, i.e. during corn growth phases that … encompass corn silking through grain maturity. Impacts of storage and weather on the distribution of terminal futures price …
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Using a national survey, double hurdle models are estimated to examine the impact of farmers’ risk attitude on use of production and marketing contracts. Risk averse farmers are less likely to use contracts but risk attitude does not have any significant impact on the intensity at which...
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Technology and innovation play an increasingly important role in the economic development of both developed and developing countries. We investigate how policy and market factors influence firms’ (or other potential innovators’) decisions on innovation or imitation by developing a conceptual...
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