The Australian wheat industry is an important contributor to the Australian economy and farm sector. This paper investigates the determinants of land use in wheat production for the Australian wheat-sheep zone. Land allocation between the wheat and the wool enterprises are considered in view of...

The post 2015 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms may bring a substantial change in the way farm payments are paid in Scotland where earlier farm payments were based on historical entitlements. Scottish farms now have to follow a Basic payment Scheme (BPS) which would be determined under a...

The study analyzes the reasons for defining bona fide hedging for regulatory purposes, deficiencies of the current legal definitions, means for sidestepping the need to define hedging, how these means might work in practice, some problems posed thereby, and possible theoretical and practical...

U.S. agricultural exports fell 9 percent, a $2.8-billion decline, during the first 9 months of fiscal year 1991. U.S. agricultural imports totaled $17.3 billion for October-June, up just $22 million from last year at this time.

U.S. agricultural exports accelerated to $29.8 billion during the first 9 months of c, fiscal year 1984 (October 1983-June 1984), 12-percent above year-earlier values, despite lower volumes. U.s. agricultural imports during the first 9 'months, at $14 billion, moved 13 percent above.year-earlier...