Improved varieties are considered critical for increasing crop yields worldwide. This study explored the effects of public agricultural extension and pest and disease experience on adoption of improved varieties using survey data on 525 wheat farmers in Anhui Province, China, to which the...

Technical efficiency (TE) is an important measure of farm performance. This study measured the TE of wheat farms across six states in the U.S. Western Great Plains based on production and farm management-specific variables. Significant factors positively influencing efficiency were insecticide...

The "European" agricultural model introduced during the first British settlement in 1788 proved unsuitable for the very different Australian environment, forcing farmers to adapt creatively. This study examines how climate shaped such adaptive behavior in wheat farming in Australia from the...

One of Ethiopia’s main challenges is increasing wheat production and productivity by designing and implementing an appropriate wheat policy. The country has a wheat supply and demand gap, forcing the country to spend a substantial amount of foreign currency for wheat imports, which are...

This paper assesses the impact of the Black Sea Grain Initiative on the grain futures market. We rely on counterfactual evaluation techniques and detailed futures price series to estimate how corn and wheat futures prices and historical volatility responded to the Grain Deal enforcement,...

Adverse weather conditions can affect both crop yield quantity and yield quality. In wheat production, especially the risk of a downgrading due to low baking quality, as indicated by the Hagberg Falling Number, can cause large economic losses after precipitation events. We here estimate...

An examination of the dynamics of seed markets in Bihar, India, reveals a paradox-despite an influx of wheat varieties bred by public and private sectors and the proliferation of seed market networks in rural villages, older wheat varieties remain prevalent-necessitating a thorough investigation...

The quality of production is related to a series of physical and chemical characteristics of plants which gives a positive mark to the applied agrotechnical methods for the correlation of the latter to the production obtained on the surface unit. A more intense accumulation of the biomass which...

The impacts of extreme weather events on crop production are largely heterogeneous along the timing dimension of the shocks, and the varieties being affected. We investigate the yield-temperature relationships for three categories of earliness of durum wheat: early-maturing, middle-maturing, and...

Wheat production is dominated by a subsistence smallholder production system. Additionally, more than 4.7 million smallholder farmers are engaged in wheat production. However, poverty is chronic and pervasive among smallholder farmers. Hence, targeting the efficiency of wheat production is the...

This study proposes integrated image processing and deep learning approaches for wheat rust disease detection and grading. Wheat stripe rust is one of the diseases affecting the crop in nearly all wheat-growing countries, where humidity and high temperatures characterize the growing season. The...

Sustainable intensification of agriculture requires the adoption of new production techniques, tools, and programmes on a large scale. This implies substantial shifts in established ways of farming under uncertain information about potential economic and environmental outcomes. Research can...

National wheat yield depends on climate conditions and usually remains unknown until harvest. In-season knowledge can be provided by wheat yield forecast systems, supporting the decision-making of farmers, food traders, or policymakers. In this study, we improved a previously developed...

The purpose of this study is to analyse the nexus between water, wheat and war in Egypt. Currently, the obstructed diffusion of the wheat market in Egypt prevents it from acquiring its fair share among other countries in terms of production versus its consumption. Water and Wheat...

The 2018 United States Farm Bill has opened the possibility for farmers to increase their profits through hemp cultivation. The literature suggests hemp has the potential to replace soybeans in soybean-wheat double-cropping because hemp shares key attributes of soybeans as a rotation crop...

The article addresses the problems related to the functioning of the worldwide market of wheat and meslin. The authors identify the countries that over the past 17 years have been among the top 10 world leaders in terms of the value of export and import of wheat and meslin. The structure of...

We extract implied price densities from wheat derivative prices during the first seven months of the Ukrainian war. Differences between short- and longterm densities indicate that market expectations about the duration of the conflict changed over time. Under simplifying assumptions, we...

The paper tries to examine the institutional arrangements to enforce the minimum support price (MSP) in India with a special reference to a highly agricultural-producing state, which is also known as the food bowl of India. The current study is based on the Punjab state which is an...

Technical efficiency (TE) is an important measure of farm performance. This study measured the TE of wheat farms across six states in the U.S. Western Great Plains based on production and farm management-specific variables. Significant factors positively influencing efficiency were insecticide...

Romania's significant agricultural productive potential can fully cover domestic demand and can ensure important export deliveries. However, the yield of cereal production is below the European Union average. Of these, an important place is occupied by wheat production. Taking into account these...

One of Ethiopia's main challenges is increasing wheat production and productivity by designing and implementing an appropriate wheat policy. The country has a wheat supply and demand gap, forcing the country to spend a substantial amount of foreign currency for wheat imports, which are primarily...

Benefiting from pedoclimatic conditions favorable to grain cultivation, Romania was an important player in international trades. In the context of the current geopolitical changes, the paper aims to identify the position occupied by Romania in the global trade of maize and wheat in the period...

Wheat being a nutri-rich grain has a significant role in ensuring food and nutritional security for establishing zero hunger as committed under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The importance of wheat in Asia’s food basket and nutrition is clearly depicted through a significant...

The paper is based on the research carried out during 2018-2020 in a long term trial placed in 2001 on the luvosoil from Agricultural Research and Development Station Oradea. The crop rotation and nutrition regime influence on the biomass and yield were studied in the following device: factor A-...

It is widely recognized that climate change makes the weather more erratic. Since the combination of temperature and precipitation is a major driver ofgrain crop productivity, more frequent extreme rainfalls and heat waves, flooding and draught tend to make grain production and hence grain...

Understanding how climate change affects the phosphorus (P) nutrition of crops grown on acid soils is important to optimize the management of and to secure future food production on these soils. This study assessed the impact of elevated CO2 (eCO2) on the P nutrition of wheat (Triticum aestivum)...

The intensive use of acetochlor in China leads to its extensive existence in soil which may show contamination on the crop and commodities. Therefore, it is vital to assess the bioavailability and phytotoxicity of acetochlor to crops. In this study, four measurements involved in in situ pore...

Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic, non-essential heavy metal; its accumulation in plants alters metabolism and limits productivity. Though various studies have addressed Cd stress response in various species, the detailed molecular mechanisms remain unknown. Therefore, the present work investigated the...

Agricultural lands represent vast terrestrial surfaces, in which agricultural practices are likely to offer leverages to store carbon in soil. We hypothesize that ancient wheat varieties could store more carbon than modern ones, due to a likely bigger and deeper root system. Since modern...

The incorporation of different types of crop straw may lead to distinct forms and chemical structures of soil organic matter (SOM), which are closely associated with soil microorganisms in agricultural ecosystems. However, the relationship between the SOM physical-chemical compositions and soil...

Quantifying net primary productivity (NPP) is very important for understanding the global carbon cycle and assessing ecosystem carbon dynamics. But there are still uncertainties in the estimation of NPP. Using the winter wheat data from the experimental station in 2019, this study evaluated the...

Ethiopian economy relies on Agriculture, but it is highly dependent on rainfall. Rainfall is highly varying spatially and temporally affecting cropping pattern and productivity. Drought incidences and prolonged dry days during crop growing season are the leading challenges of agricultural...

Understanding the causes of spatio-temporal variation in crop yield across large areas is an important step forward in closing yield gaps and producing more food and fibre for the growing global population. While there has been much focus on using data-driven models to predict crop yield, there...