Interpretation of historic grain price data may be hazardous owing to systematic grain quality variation – both cross sectionally and over varying time horizons (intra-year, inter-year, long run). We use the English wheat market, 1750-1914, as an example to quantify this issue. First, we show...

Ethanol production is increasingly commonplace in many grain producing regions. This paper uses the grain producing region of Western Australia as a case study to illustrate how the location and size of an ethanol plant affects its grain accumulation costs. Specifically, this study examines how...

This paper provides an overview of regulations and industry practices relating to grain quality in Canada's barley sector. Special attention is devoted to malting barley. Topics include: supply and disposition of barley in Canada; role of institutions (Canadian Grain Commission and Canadian Wheat...

DON is a toxic byproduct of fusarium head blight (FHB), a fungal disease of small grains. Beginning in 1993, a prolonged outbreak of FHB occurred in the Upper Midwest, the traditional source of most six-rowed malting barley produced in the United States. Price discounts associated with DON in...

Effective use of water (EUW) was evaluated along with grain yield in the same environment over different years and locations. The root system sizes of sets of winter wheat varieties (20, 20, 20 and 18 varieties in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, respectively) were evaluated by measuring their...

Recent legislative initiatives call for studies to evaluate costs associated with cleaning U.S. grains to meet more stringent standards. This paper reports on a study which developed a mixed-integer programming model of the U.S. sorghum sector to (1) determine the least-cost geographic location...

This paper deals with research results over winter wheat. The general trend of the impact of intensive technology of winter wheat cultivation on nutritional and technological quality of grain, which involves the use of a wide range of agrochemicals according to the phases of organogenesis has...

This study estimates the impact of reduced demand for U.S. corn during the 2000/01 marketing year caused by the StarLink-contamination event in the year 2000. A partial equilibrium model is constructed that separates both the domestic and foreign demand functions for corn into food and non-food...

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