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Impact of the Set-Aside Program on the U.S. Wheat Acreages

Garst, Gail D.; Miller, Thomas A. - In: Agricultural Economics Research (1975) 2

Five factors are found to have had a significant effect on U.S. acreage of wheat planted during 1961-74: (1) acreage … restrictions, and (5) the market price of wheat for the preceding season. Together, these factors explain over 98 percent of the … wheat acreage variation during 1961-74. The wheat set-aside program reduced wheat planting by 0.28 acre for each acre set …

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Alternate Modes of Irrigation and Farmer Returns Under Conjunctive Water Management in Pakistan

Jehangir, Waqar Ahmed; Ashfaq, Muhammad; Christen, Evan - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 11 (2003)

The paper describes a study of canal and supplemental ground water used by 544 farmers for wheat growing in the Rechna … irrigation and comparing them with conjunctive water use. For econometric analysis, a linear relationship between the wheat …

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Contribution of Wheat Diversity to Total Factor Productivity in China

Jin, Songqing; Meng, Erika C.H.; Hu, Ruifa; Rozelle, Scott - In: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 33 (2008) 3

The impact of wheat diversity on the productivity of wheat in China is examined using total factor productivity (TFP …) and an instrumental variable approach. TFP in seven key wheat-producing provinces in China shows significant, though … taxonomies of wheat diversity (named varieties and morphological groups) and three measures of diversity. The analysis shows …

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Agricultural contracting and the scale of production.

Key, N. - 2004

This study presents evidence that contracting is positively associated with the scale of production for six major U.S. agricultural commodities. Specifically, contract producers tend to operate at a larger scale than do independent producers, and the likelihood of an operation contracting...

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Optimal Grazing Termination Date for Dual-Purpose Winter Wheat Production

Taylor, Karen W.; Epplin, Francis M.; Brorsen, B. Wade; … - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 42 (2010) 01

Dual-purpose winter wheat (fall-winter forage plus grain) production is an important economic enterprise in the … optimal grazing termination date for dual-purpose wheat. The value of knowing the occurrence of first hollow stem (FHS), a … wheat growth threshold for grazing termination, is also determined. Results indicate that for most price situations grazing …

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Evaluating Dryland Crop/Livestock System Alternatives for Risk Management under Declining Irrigation in the Texas Panhandle

Lust, David G.; Almas, Lal K.; Stewart, Bob A.; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2009

dryland wheat and sorghum and for alternative dryland crop/livestock systems. A crop simulation model aids yield estimation …

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ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF FUSARIUM HEAD BLIGHT IN WHEAT

Johnson, D. Demcey; Flaskerud, George K.; Taylor, Richard D. - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North … - 1998

Fusarium Head Blight (FHB), commonly known as scab, has been a severe problem for wheat producers in recent years. This … study estimates the economic value of crop losses suffered by wheat producers in the 1990s. Nine states and three wheat …

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The Marketing Performance of Illinois and Kansas Wheat Farmers

Dietz, Sarah N.; Aulerich, Nicole M.; Irwin, Scott H.; … - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 41 (2009) 01

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Illinois and Kansas over 1982â …€“2004. The results show that farmer benchmark prices for wheat in Illinois and Kansas fall in the middle third of the price … and Kansas wheat farmers routinely market the bulk of their wheat crop in the bottom portion of the price range. Tests of …

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Pesticide Use in U.S. Agriculture: 21 Selected Crops, 1960-2008

Fernandez-Cornejo, Jorge; Nehring, Richard; Osteen, Craig; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2014

Pesticide use has changed considerably over the past five decades. Rapid growth characterized the first 20 years, ending in 1981. The total quantity of pesticides applied to the 21 crops analyzed grew from 196 million pounds of pesticide active ingredients in 1960 to 632 million pounds in 1981....

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ALTERNATIVE MEASURES OF RISK IN COMMODITY SUPPLY MODELS: AN ANALYSIS OF SOW FARROWING DECISIONS IN THE UNITED STATES

Holt, Matthew T.; Moschini, GianCarlo - In: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 17 (1992) 01

The role of price risk in sow farrowings is investigated by using bivariate ARCH-M and GARCH-M models and a nonparametric kernel estimator. To account for the relevant time horizon of irreversible supply decisions, predictions for mean price and conditional price variance are iterated forward....

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