Iowa in corn, central Illinois in soybeans, the Washington Palouse and central North Dakota in wheat, and southern … California in cotton relative to the other selected regions in the study. Scale economies exist in corn, soybean and wheat but …Between 1974 and 1983, intertemporal cost efficiency for u.s. field crops increased about 1.4 to 1.2% percent for corn …

collected. Each State that received or shipped a substantial amount of at least one of three major crops (corn, soybeans, and … wheat) by rail has been described in this report by its characteristics. A State level breakdown of rail shipments, rail …

The paper describes a study of canal and supplemental ground water used by 544 farmers for wheat growing in the Rechna … irrigation and comparing them with conjunctive water use. For econometric analysis, a linear relationship between the wheat …

Production functions to explain regional wheat yields have not been studied extensively in the Canadian prairies. The … and variance of spring wheat yields. Using regional-level wheat data from Manitoba, Canada, model results show nitrogen … fertilizer, temporal diversity, and PBR wheat cultivars are associated with increased yield variance. Mean wheat yield is reduced …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Illinois and Kansas over 1982â …€“2004. The results show that farmer benchmark prices for wheat in Illinois and Kansas fall in the middle third of the price … and Kansas wheat farmers routinely market the bulk of their wheat crop in the bottom portion of the price range. Tests of …

This article estimates a model relating quarterly corn prices to quarterly corn stocks for 1971-81 Results are …, consistent With expectations that higher stocks many specific quarter Yield lower corn prices and that any given level of stocks … corn prices and to respond to other Situation and outlook questions …

preferences could improve the wheat production package. A traditional practice of Chefe Donsa farmers—applying ash from their … inorganic potassium fertilizer on wheat. Farmer adoption of a minimum tillage production system increased the gross margin of … wheat production by US$ 132 per hectare—based on 1999 prices—relative to the traditional flat seedbed system. The minimum …

by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) to breed leaf rust resistant spring bread wheat …