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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 …
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Use of crop biotechnology products, such as genetically engineered (GE) crops with input traits for pest management, has risen dramatically since commercial approval in the mid-1990s. This report addresses several of the economic dimensions regarding farmer adoption of bioengineered crops,...
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combination of corn and natural gas prices. …
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data from a survey of 1,205 U.S. cotton, corn, and soybean growers, count data models were estimated to explain the total …
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rents. We model a corn farmer's production choice among four systems: traditional, herbicide-resistant, insect resistant …
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The paper investigates the linkages between technological change and production risk, with an application to corn. The … stations. Conditional moments (including mean, variance and skewness) of corn yield, grain moisture and corn profit are … well as downside risk in corn production, although this effect varies across sites. They also stress the role of the …
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perceived to improve farm financial performance. This study develops and applies an econometric model to data from corn and …
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applied to the case of Roundup Ready® (RR) and fusarium resistant (FR) HRS wheat, although the general structure of the models …
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Roundup Ready® Wheat (RRW) was one of the first genetically modified (GM) traits for the wheat sector and was under … equilibrium model of the higher-protein hard wheat market and assess the changes in the distribution of welfare associated with … increases by $252 million. Producers of hard red spring (HRS) wheat in the United States and Canada win, while hard red winter …
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of the value oftraining for scientists in wheat rust resistance. The value of improving human capitalis assessed through …
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