Sprouting of wheat due to untimely rains is a frequent occurrence in major wheat-producing areas throughout the world including the United States. This paper examines the local, regional, national, and international effects on supply and demand of incidence of sprouting under different...

Demand for Pacific Coast pears is analyzed by means of a simultaneous equation model which separately identifies Bartlett and winter pears in fresh and processed uses. The model is applied to annual data for the 1960-1989 period and is used to determine optimal allocations for historical periods...

Price forecasting models are used to demonstrate that revenues to the Washington apple industry would have been about $130 million higher in the 1988-1989 season if the Alar scare had not occurred. Because of the structure of the apple marketing system, virtually all of that loss would have been...