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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between weather, technology, and corn and soybean yields in the U.S. Corn Belt. Corn and soybean yields, monthly temperature, and monthly precipitation observations were collected over 1960 through 2006 for Illinois, Indiana, and...
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Without question, it was the 9/11 attacks and subsequent anthrax incidents that sounded the alarm that deliberate contamination of the nation’s food supply is a real possibility. Some foods are more susceptible to deliberate contamination than others, but there is no practical way one can...
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After identifying organic agriculture hotspots using spatial statistics, we estimate a treatment effects model that classifies a county's membership in an organic hotspot as an endogenous treatment variable. We find that organic hotspot membership leads to a lower county-level poverty rate and a...
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The December 2003 discovery of a BSE infected cow in the USA revealed a vulnerability in the safety of the U.S. Food Supply. This study reports on a nationwide risk perception survey conducted in early January 2004. Survey results showed that U.S. consumers for the most part took the discovery...
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Evaluation of US agricultural policy reform is complicated by the interaction of price support programs and production … constraints. Researchers have typically presumed that price support policies as observed in the US wheat program increase the … the data. In this paper the structural model of price support based on production constraints is developed and its …
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In the midst of concerns about U.S. energy security and climate change, a wider use of biomass and biofuels is promoted as one of the recipes for sustainability. The production and use of biofuels in the United States has rapidly increased in the last several years, promoted by a variety of...
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This is the first paper to analyze the impact of biofuels on the price transmission along the food chain. We analyze … the U.S. corn sector and its vertical links with food and ethanol (energy) markets. We find that biofuels affect the price … market shock and the policy regime: the price transmission elasticity declines under a binding blender's tax credit and a …
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This is the first paper to analyze the impact of biofuels on the price transmission along the food chain. We analyze … the U.S. corn sector and its vertical links with food and ethanol (energy) markets. We find that biofuels affect the price … market shock and the policy regime: the price transmission elasticity declines under a binding blender's tax credit and a …
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Using a GARCH model, we analyze the influence of U.S. monetary policy action and communication on the price volatility … significant impact on price volatility. Second, expected target rate changes and communications decrease volatility, whereas … ; Price Volatility …
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Not much attention has been given to protest responses in choice experiments (CE). Using follow-up statements, we are able to identify protest responses and compute welfare estimates with and without the inclusion of such protest responses. We conclude that protest responses are fairly common in...
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