in 1977 compared to 1.6 billion bushels in 1974. Corn was the leading grain handled by the 18 regiona1s--totaling 695 … million bushels followed closely by wheat with 571 million bushels. Together corn and wheat comprised 68 percent of regionals …

Between 1974 and 1983, intertemporal cost efficiency for u.s. field crops increased about 1.4 to 1.2% percent for corn … Iowa in corn, central Illinois in soybeans, the Washington Palouse and central North Dakota in wheat, and southern … California in cotton relative to the other selected regions in the study. Scale economies exist in corn, soybean and wheat but …

This study analyzes the potential impact of climate change and the uncertainty of CO2 fertilization on China's corn …

growth on corn acreage. Connecting annual changes in county-level corn acreage to changes in ethanol plant capacities, we … find a positive effect on planted corn. The building of a typical plant is estimated to increase corn in the county by over … increase corn production by less than their annual requirements. …

This study sought to determine whether monthly revisions of U.S. Department of Agriculture current-year corn and … soybean yield forecasts are correlated and whether this correlation is associated with crop size. An ex-ante measure of crop …

commercial farms. This study examines the structure and profitability of field corn production using a nationwide survey of corn … using the matched sample to isolate the effect of choosing the organic approach on various levels of corn production costs …. The procedure accounts for the impact of both observable and unobservable variables on corn production costs. …

of corn and soybean futures markets from 1986 to 2012. Results show significant differences between close-to-open return …

market. The shares of corn and ethanol price variability directly attributed to volatility in the crude oil market are … spillovers to both corn and ethanol markets are somewhat similar in timing and magnitude, but moderately stronger to the ethanol …. Volatility transmission is also found from the corn to the ethanol market, but not the opposite. The findings provide insights …