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Grain supply is the joint effect of both area and yield; however, research often targets either one or the other. The research presented here estimates the complete supply elasticity of grains using novel approaches to approximate producers’ price and weather expectations on both yield and...
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In the last decades, rice yields in South Asian countries grew tremendously in one hand and a noticeable yield fluctuation on the other. The objective of this study was to examine the rice yield distributions, estimate yield risks at country level, and compare risks between five countries namely...
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A primary change to crop insurance contained in the USDA’s Farm Bill proposal is supplemental deductible coverage (SDC). SDC would allow farmers who purchase individual crop insurance coverage to purchase area-wide coverage in the amount of the individual policy deductible. This...
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The efficiency of the Chinese wheat and soybean futures markets is studied. Formal statistical tests were conducted … price for soybeans and weak short-term efficiency in the soybean futures market. The futures market for wheat is inefficient …
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The economic feasibility of soybeans, grain sorghum, and corn in annual rotation with winter wheat using reduced … tillage and no-tillage systems in the Central Great Plains was evaluated, with continuous wheat and grain sorghum also … strategies under various risk preferences. The no-till wheat-soybean and reduced-till wheatsoybean systems are the first and …
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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 …
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A theoretical optimal hedging model is developed to determine potential demand from Australianfarmers for a hedging tool to remove the economic consequences of climate related variability inwheat yield. In the past, financial instruments have been developed to hedge price risk on capitalmarkets;...
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This paper seeks to quantify the acreage responses of wheat, cotton, sugarcane and rice in Pakistan using co …-integration techniques and impulse response analysis. Results indicate that acreages of wheat and basmati rice do not respond significantly …
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We used a disaggregate approach to examine investment efficiency of wheat breeding research in India. India's total … during the period studied. Although the aggregate rate of return to wheat improvement research in India was estimated to be …
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