Low-temperature drying methods result in improved corn quality, which is of some importance to all users but is particularly important to dry millers. Several low-temperature drying methods exist, but there are few economic incentives to encourage their use. A supply function based on farm...

Grain quality changes between origin and destination have continued to be important to grain importers and exporters. This article quantifies the quality losses during shipment of soybeans from US ports to European and Japanese destinations and estimates the decrease in value based on these...

The 1986 U.S. Grain Quality Improvement Act introduced an explicit, economic purpose for grades-that they transmit information about end use value-but provided little guidance about what factors to include in grades. We determined which quality characteristics best reflect the processed value of...