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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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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925270
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Prices and Coupons for Breakfast Cereals
Nevo, Aviv; Wolfram, Catherine D. - 2000
This paper explores the relationship between shelf prices and manufacturers' coupons for 25 ready-to-eat breakfast cereals. Contrary to the predictions of static monopoly price discrimination, we find the shelf prices for a particular brand in a particular city are generally lower during periods...
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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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Implications for Energy Innovation from the Chemical Industry
Arora, Ashish - 2014
The history of innovation in the chemical industry offers many insights for accelerating energy innovation. In this chapter, we begin by laying out the early history of the chemical industry for an overview of the role innovation has played in its development. We then explore three noteworthy...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038238
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038327
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How Agricultural Biotechnology Boosts Food Supply and Accomodates Biofuels
Sexton, Steven - 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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