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Is Agricultural Production Becoming More or Less Sensitive to Extreme Heat? Evidence from U.S. Corn and Soybean Yields

Roberts, Michael J. - 2010

Extreme heat is the single best predictor of corn and soybean yields in the United States. While average yields have risen continuously since World War II, we find no evidence that relative tolerance to extreme heat has improved between 1950 and 2005. Climate change forecasts project a sharp...

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Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields : The Importance of Nonlinear Temperature Effects

Schlenker, Wolfram - 2013

will have implications for world food supply. We pair a panel of county-level crop yields in the US with a fine …

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Grain Today, Gain Tomorrow : Evidence from a Storage Experiment with Savings Clubs in Kenya

Aggarwal, Shilpa - 2018

year, and because grain prices are low at harvest but rise over the year. We experimentally provided two saving schemes to …

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Corn Production Shocks in 2012 and Beyond : Implications for Food Price Volatility

Berry, Steven - 2012

Corn prices increased sharply in the summer of 2012 due to expected production shortfalls in the United States, which produces roughly 40% of the world's corn. A heat wave in July adversely affected corn production. We extend earlier statistical models of county-level corn yields in the Eastern...

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Yield Performance of Corn Under Heat Stress : A Comparison of Hybrid and Open-Pollinated Seeds During a Period of Technological Transformation, 1933-1955

Meyers, Keith; Rhode, Paul W. - 2022

Starting in the 1930s, commercial hybrid corn seeds rapidly replaced the once predominant open-pollinated varieties planted by farmers. By the mid-1950s almost all corn grown in the United States was of hybrid varieties. Observers have argued that the drought tolerant qualities of these hybrids...

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Food vs. Fuel? Impacts of Petroleum Shipments on Agricultural Prices

Bushnell, James B. - 2017

Grain shippers and political figures in North Dakota and nearby states have voiced concern that the dramatic increases … crude shipments on grain markets accounting for harvest effects and other potential sources of rail congestion. Increased …

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Did the Renewable Fuel Standard Shift Market Expectations of the Price of Ethanol?

Baumeister, Christiane - 2017

It is commonly believed that the response of the price of corn ethanol (and hence of the price of corn) to shifts in biofuel policies operates in part through market expectations and shifts in storage demand, yet to date it has proved difficult to measure these expectations and to empirically...

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Commodity Price Volatility in the Biofuel Era : An Examination of the Linkage between Energy and Agricultural Markets

Hertel, Thomas W. - 2015

Agricultural and energy commodity prices have traditionally exhibited relatively low correlation. However, recent increases in biofuel production have altered the agriculture-energy relationship in a fundamental way. This increase has drawn on corn previously sold to other uses, as well as...

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Meeting the Mandate for Biofuels : Implications for Land Use, Food and Fuel Prices

Chen, Xiaoguang - 2015

effects of these policies on cropland allocation, food and fuel prices, and the mix of biofuels from corn and cellulosic …

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How Agricultural Biotechnology Boosts Food Supply and Accomodates Biofuels

Sexton, Steven E. - 2015

sources of yield improvements have been mostly exhausted, generating concerns about the future of food prices. This paper … estimates the impact of global adoption of genetically engineered (GE) seeds on food supply by exploiting the spatial and … developed countries. The authors simulate food prices during the 2008 food crisis without GE-seed-induced yield gains …

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