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Seasonal variations of the price premium between bread and feed wheat indicate opportunities to profitably adjusting … pattern of wheat price premiums on the German market by a vector error correction (VECM) approach, which accounts for … the premium during the marketing season. The trend’s magnitude depends on the average quality of harvested wheat. If …
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Topic Relevance Foliar diseases often reduce grain yields of winter wheat in the southern Great Plains, with some … cultural practices such as planting date and crop rotations. However, in Europe, where wheat yields average more than twice the … U.S. average, fungicides are applied to over 95% of the wheat area and are credited as one of the major factors …
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Texas High Plains (THP) is a major cotton producing region in the US with low rainfall and decreasing irrigation water availability. Hence stochastic rainfall poses considerable production risk in the region and developing strategies to maximize the average profit and minimize the year to year...
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We provide a general framework for quantifying the effects of genotypic selection prediction accuracy and varying cost ratios of phenotyping to genotyping on the economic performance of genotypic selection relative to traditional phenotypic selection. Economic performance is measured using...
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The existing literature on dynamic efficiency is deterministic and ignores uncertainty when deriving dynamic efficiency measures, even though it is known that uncertainty affects the optimal adjustment path and the optimal use of quasi-fixed factors. Here, we contribute to closing this gap by...
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Likely climate change impacts in the U.S. include damages to agricultural production resulting from increased exposure to extreme heat. However, considerable uncertainty remains regarding impacts on the performance of the Federal Crop Insurance Program. Here we utilized a large panel of corn...
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