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This study presents evidence that contracting is positively associated with the scale of production for six major U.S. agricultural commodities. Specifically, contract producers tend to operate at a larger scale than do independent producers, and the likelihood of an operation contracting...
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conducted on cotton and corn crops to better control for other factors that could affect pesticide use. The paper applies …. Although some specific strategies such as GM adoption decreased the amount of active ingredients sprayed on cotton and corn … the analysis of the cotton and corn data. The results also suggest that fixed environmental factors explain a significant …
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The United States leads the world in agricultural biotechnology research, adoption, commercialization, and exports. Our biotech commodities are highly dependent on international markets. Thus, any biotech policy changes by key importing countries may affect U.S. agricultural biotech product...
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among theinternal and external prices of the cotton of january of 1990 to february of 2009. Forthat, they were employees the … of the analyzed samples, indicating that variations of price of the cotton happened at a market is reviewed to the other …
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the crude oil market. In the long-run, around 2-7 percent of the variability in grains, oilseeds, and cotton prices can be …
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Traders, on the well-functioning of futures markets and underlyingcommodity markets. Cotton is a relatively under … changes in cotton economic fundamentals? (2) Have seasonaland long-run patterns of convenience yield and price volatility … suggest that traditional, well-established economicrelationships for cotton futures markets clearly have been disrupted during …
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government policies. Both export taxes and import tariffs are used as policy tools to regulate cotton markets. Domestic price … of economic inefficiency associated with government intervention in Turkish cotton markets. A two-region partial … equilibrium model of cotton exports and imports is developed under the "small country assumption" to obtain empirical estimates of …
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Texas is the leading U.S. producer of cotton, and the U.S. is the largest internationalmarket supplier of cotton. Risks … and uncertainties plague Texas cotton producers withunpredictable weather, insects, diseases, and price variability. Risk … cotton farmers in Texasusing irrigation, put options, and yield insurance. The primary objective was to analyzethe …
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stable growth in the effects of cotton prices, technological revolutions such as railroads, and wage and interest rate …
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the recent drop in the price of computers, but in fact was between 1740 and 1780 when the price of cotton fell 99.9%. He … then shares a brief history of cotton and textiles that lead up to the drop in price during the 1700s. In addition, he …
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