The FAPRI models were developed to quantify trade and policy interactions among the major importing and exporting regions of the world. They are intended primarily for use in making intermediate-term projections and conducting policy impact analysis. Thus, they are relatively small, partial...

Large-scale modeling systems have long been viewed as potentially valuable tools for evaluating farm policy. They have received increased attention in recent years, in part because of the added complexity of U.S. farm programs and the fuller integration of the U.S. farm sector with nonfarm...

Over the past decade the operation of the commodity loan programs and since 1977 the farmer-owned reserve (FOR) programs, has resulted in the accumulation of large quantities of grain stocks both in the hands of the government and in the hands of farmers, sealed under the reserve program....

The international components and the overall structure of this model are based on recent work by Huyser (1983). The U.S. Structure and components of the model are based on recent work by Ash (1984) and earlier work by Baumes and Meyers (1980) and Meyers and Hacklander (1979). The roots of all...

Commodity modeling is like many other endeavors in science and in life—we continue to strive for completeness and perfection but may never be satisfied with the current level of our accomplishments. This is a productive attitude, because it always generates incentives for continued effort...

The United States has an extensive assistance program for less developed countries (LDCs), although its contribution is the lowest among the developed market economies in percent of allocated GNP (OECD 1988). On average for 1985/86, about 11.2 percent or $1.05 billion (1985 prices and exchange...

Agricultural trade problems have been receiving increased attention in the United States for the last few years. The reason is obvious. After a decade during which the value of agricultural exports grew from $8 billion annually to a peak of nearly $44 billion in 1981, both quantities and values...

The soybean trade model is one of the three models in the trade modeling system developed, updated, and maintained by the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD). The other two commodity trade models are for wheat and the feed-grains complex. The three trade models are linked...

The feed-grains trade model is one of the three models in the world trade modeling system developed, updated, and maintained by the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD). The other two commodity trade models are for wheat and the soybeans complex. The three world models are...

In July 1989, U.S. negotiators presented a tariffication proposal at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) meeting in Geneva. According to that proposal, all agricultural nontariff barriers (NTBs) such as quotas and variable import levies would be converted to equivalent ad valorem...