The discovery of StarLink corn in U.S. food products caused considerable disruption in corn markets in 2000 and 2001. Segregation costs were incurred by the U.S. grain-handling system in order to ensure that domestic and export sales of food corn and export sales of non-food corn to Japan meet...

The major objective of this paper is to identify and evaluate those economic factors which have influenced the development and continuing concentration of the Canadian prairie feedlot industry in southern Alberta. Irrigation, the marketing infrastructure, and local investors are identified as...

The degree of vertical integration in the U.S. sugar industry between raw-sugar processing and sugar refining cannot be explained using theories of vertical integration based only on transaction costs. We graphically decompose the economic rents accruing to each level participant in the...

We present arguments that the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Foundation in the United States has no basis for filing a countervail complaint against the Canadian cattle industry in which it alleges that Canadian cattle are being fed cheap barley because of alleged inefficiencies of the Canadian...

Cross-sectional data from a 1981 survey of Saskatchewan farmers are used to investigate the determinants of size of long-term loans from the Canadian Farm Credit Corporation. Heckman's procedure is used to correct for sample selectivity bias, which was shown to be present. The results are...

Monte Carlo simulation is used to compare the expected net returns and relative riskiness of alternative cropping strategies in Saskatchewan. The strategies include traditional fixed rotations and flexible ones that have been recommended by researchers. Three important conclusions follow. (a)...