U S wheat exports have fallen nearly 20 percent since 1981. Major contributing factors appear to be the strong U S dollar, debt problems m many gram-Importing countries, and mandated support levels providing an umbrella under which U S competitors can produce and sell their grams US subsidies...

Mathematical programming methods are used as a framework to evaluate world food prospects. Emphasis is on analyzing the world grain-oilseeds-livestock economy to capture the interaction of the predominantly cereal economies of the developing world and the livestock economies of the developed...

An export slump is one of the major problems plaguing U S agriculture Many of the world economic forces, that had turned against U S farmers m the early eighties have now changed The exchange rate is one of these forces This article presents a simulation of the disparate impacts of depreciation...

This article investigates the possibilities of including policy choices directly into a sector model that simulates an economic equilibrium It uses a mathematical programming framework because these models have wide applicability in agricultural sector analysis The objective function is...

A shift to worldwide free trade would improve prospects for U.S. livestock and grain producers. Both production and prices would be higher for meat animals and poultry, but but milk prices would be lower. Producers of peanuts, sugar, and some fruits and vegetables would face lower price and...

This article demonstrates that when a second product is introduced into the traditional single-product, partial equilibrium model, the predictions of the impact of a tariff on prices are no longer determinate In contrast to the traditional single-product partial equilibrium framework in a...

The traditional model used to analyze trade Issues suggests that an export subsidy on agricultural products IS an irrational policy choice However, export subsidies are common in world agricultural trade By relaxing the assumptions of the traditional model, researchers can develop several...

Some 6.2 million, or one-eighth, of the 1975 nonmetro population lived in metro areas 5 years earlier. Metro/nonmetro migrants more than replaced the 5.1 million persons moving in the opposite direction, except among young adults, blacks, and the college educated. In their occupation, industry,...

The 1971 and 1973 official devaluations of the U.S. dollar have often been cited as a pivotal cause for the enormous price rises in agricultural products in 1972 and 1973. This article presents two studies that test the hypothesis that exchange rate changes have a significant effect on the...