The current situation and prospects for coffee are of widespread interest to American consumers and to those who supply them, and it is of vital interest to the many Latin American countries that depend on coffee as a primary source of foreign exchange earnings. The smaller per capita use of...

The demand for U.S. feed grain is estimated using a six-equation simultaneous model. Four different utilizations of feed grain and feed grain price as well as the number of animal units fed are estimated. The reduced form of the model is used to provide forecasts of the endogenous variables for...

The ability of insects to develop resistance to specific pesticides affects pesticide demand. However, the affect of resistance on demand cannot be observed or measured. This analysis substitutes an expression for the unobserved resistance variable in a pesticide demand model and then...

U S grain prices affect one another This study uses Haugh-Pierce chi-square tests, bivariate autoregressive models, and dynamic multipliers to measure the extent of these effects Rice prices exhibit very little reaction to changes in other grain prices However, other grain prices relate closely...

What makes the price of a particular crop of pears and why prices tend to change from year to year are questions of special concern to growers, processors, and others interested in the production, marketing, and pricing of pears. The market structure for pears, as for other fruits, is a complex...

A method is reported for measuring supply response in an environment in which Government price supports and market conditions both influence producers' decisions. This method is used to analyze U.S. corn acreage data_

CONTINUING ATTENTION is being given to possible international arrangements in the Temperate Zone for grain-livestock trade. Such arrangements may be more meaningfully derived if a knowledge of past and present pricing arrangements is available. This article reports an attempt to formulate a...

This article investigates the Impacts on the rice industry of increased price variability caused by the shift from stable economic conditions and a farm policy of supply control m the sixties to more variable economic conditions and a market-oriented farm policy in the seventies, The increased...

This article analyzes the dynamic relationships among weekly prices of price byproducts, long gram rice, and corn, using causality tests and dynamic multipliers The authors use forecasts to evaluate the time series model rice byproducts prices may be influenced more by shifts 10 demand than 10...