fructose corn syrup (HFCS) became an inexpensive substitute for sugar in food beginning in 1970. However, the effect of this … most commodities and increased their use in food production, ceteris paribus, although corn has benefited more than sugar … crops in the technical progress. Commodity programs have raised the price of sugar and decreased the price of corn; high …

growing feedstock for ethanol (corn, sorghum, wheat, sugarcane, and other grains) and major crops competing with feedstock for … other sugar-producing countries, but with small impacts on other land uses in most countries. …

This paper is based on analysis of the sugar market at national and European level on the development of prices for the … sugar market which will analyse the problems leading to stagnation and imbalance national sugar production, try solving the … problems identified at national level taking as examples beet farms in Europe for analysing prices. Through sugar market …

We conduct an econometric analysis of the factors influencing U.S. corn and soybean yields using U.S. county level data … dollars per bushel would enhance corn yield by 3.95 to 5.63 bushels per acre and soybean yield by 0.11 to 0.14 bushels per … acre, which on average implies an own price elasticity of corn ranging from 0.107 to 0.152 and an own price elasticity of …

The hypothesis that corn and soybeans have become more drought tolerant is tested by regressing county yields on a … drought index and time. Results indicate that corn yield losses from drought of a given severity, whether measured in quantity …