New production from public and exclusive varieties released by the small grains breeding program at Virginia Tech generated cumulative discounted benefits of $41 million from 2000 to 2018. Fitted yields from field trials were combined with acreage estimates to generate weighted average yields...

An extraordinary high-strength dilute Mg-0.8Al-0.1Ca-0.6Mn (wt. %) alloy wire was successfully developed by hot drawing, which exhibits high tensile yield strength of 394 MPa, ultimate tensile strength of 431 MPa and moderate elongation to failure of 6.0%. The high strength was mainly attributed...

Quality control can happen at the farm level. However, adoption of better agricultural practices largely depends on the availability of appropriate technology, the introduction of improved varieties, and farmers’ awareness and training

The effect of water-heat treatment and time of electromagnetic irradiation on the yield and quality of flattened wholegrain cereal from emmer wheat is investigated. A comparative analysis of cereal yield and cooking time at different moisture contents and time of electromagnetic irradiation of...

Derivatives taught in modern Finance programs at major universities usually focuses upon options and swaps on equities, debt, and foreign exchange as the primary markets that graduates will work in at the major money markets of the world; futures might be included merely for purposes of...

In 2016, the People’s Republic of China removed its support prices for maize and started destocking its large public reserves of maize. This paper investigates what would happen if China were to also eliminate its support prices for rice and wheat and reduce its public stocks of these two...

Grain in the world -- The pattern of grain prices -- The root cause of unstable grain prices -- Unstable grain prices - who wins? who loses? -- Stabilising grain prices in a closed economy -- A model of the international grain market -- Stabilising grain prices in an open economy -- Buffer...

In the long view, recent grain price volatility is not anomalous. Wheat, rice, and maize are highly substitutable in the global market for calories, and when aggregate stocks decline to minimal feasible levels, prices become highly sensitive to small shocks, consistent with storage models. In...

Reforming China’s grain policy could have significant implications for both domestic and international markets. China has begun to reform its price support policies for several commodities, replacing them with commodity specific area payments. The assessment of policy reform scenarios for...

We develop an extended Nominal Rate of Assistance (NRA) methodology to disentangle the welfare impacts of policies for various interest groups along the value chain (to disaggregate effects within the “producer” and “consumer” umbrellas). We apply our value chain NRA methodology to the...

Famines are a common occurrence in the Sahelian region of Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2004, a drought occurred in Niger, resulting in a production shock, higher grain prices and a severe food crisis. Whereas a drought in 2000 resulted in lower per capita grain production relative to 2004, a food...

In the long view, recent grain price volatility is not anomalous. Wheat, rice, and maize are highly substitutable in the global market for calories, and when aggregate stocks decline to minimal feasible levels, prices become highly sensitive to small shocks, consistent with storage models. In...

In the long view, recent volatility of prices of the major grains is not anomalous. Wheat, rice, and maize are highly substitutable in the global market for calories, and when aggregate stocks decline to minimal feasible levels, prices become highly sensitive to small shocks, consistent with the...

During the second half of the eighteenth century, the Ottoman policy-makers adopted a more liberal attitude towards price formation. This was accompanied by the fiscal and administrative centralization of the grain trade. These seemingly contradictory policy changes could, in part, be explained...

In the long view, recent grain price volatility is not anomalous. Wheat, rice, and maize are highly substitutable in the global market for calories, and when aggregate stocks decline to minimal feasible levels, prices become highly sensitive to small shocks, consistent with storage models. In...

Evolución económica de la producción de granos, 1980-2010 / José Pierri y Ezequiel Orlando -- Evolución comparada de los sectores agroindustriales de Argentina y Brasil, 1990-2010 / Susana Merlo y Mercedes Muro de Nadal -- Análisis de costos comparados de la producción agrícola en...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Auswirkungen unterschiedlicher Handlungsoptionen im Bereich der Getreidemarktpolitik (Abschaffung der Gersteintervention sowie der Flächenstilllegung). Die quantitative Analyse wird mit dem partiellen Gleichgewichtsmodell AGMEMOD und dem...