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When the River Runs Low: Heterogeneous Impacts of Transportation Disruptions on Local Grain Basis

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A substantial share of U.S. soybean and corn exports from the Midwest moves by barge along the Mississippi River system to export terminals in the Louisiana Gulf. Transportation costs between Midwestern grain elevators and export terminals create a wedge between prices at these locations, and shocks to these costs are partially passed on to ...
Yuan Zhang, Andrew E. Anderson, Nicholas J. Pates, Eunchun Park   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Money for operator: the impact of linked agricultural subsidy on incomes

Scientific Reports
The reform of China’s “three subsidies” has shifted the method of subsidization from payment based on the contracted area to payment based on the actual operational area. Within this context, studying the income-generating impact of the “three subsidies”
Haoping Yi, Dengwang Guo, Haomin Wang, Guohui Yi, Longzhen Min   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões, Cassiano Bragagnolo, Humberto Francisco Silva Spolador   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales, Alba J. Collart, Matthew G. Interis, Esther Mmenaa Agyemang‐Duah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
wiley   +1 more source

Harnessing Large Language Models to Advance Microbiome Research: From Sequence Analysis to Clinical Applications

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Large language models are transforming microbiome research by enabling advanced sequence profiling, functional prediction, and association mining across complex datasets. They automate microbial classification and disease‐state recognition, improving cross‐study integration and clinical diagnostics.
Jieqi Xing, He Wang, Yangyang Sun, Xiaoquan Su, Shunyao Wu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Smart Flexible Tactile Sensors: Recent Progress in Device Designs, Intelligent Algorithms, and Multidisciplinary Applications

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Flexible tactile sensors have considerable potential for broad application in healthcare monitoring, human–machine interfaces, and bioinspired robotics. This review explores recent progress in device design, performance optimization, and intelligent applications. It highlights how AI algorithms enhance environmental adaptability and perception accuracy
Siyuan Wang, Ming Dong, Rongrong Bao, Caofeng Pan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Computer Vision Pipeline for Image Analysis for Freeze‐Fracture Electron Microscopy: Rosette Cellulose Synthase Complexes Case

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
This paper presents a computer vision (deep learning) pipeline integrating YOLOv8 and YOLOv9 for automated detection, segmentation, and analysis of rosette cellulose synthase complexes in freeze‐fracture electron microscopy images. The study explores curated dataset expansion for model improvement and highlights pipeline accuracy, speed ...
Siri Mudunuri, Leala Carbonneau, Eric M. Roberts, Alison W. Roberts, Candace H. Haigler, Alexey V. Gulyuk, Yaroslava G. Yingling   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Farm scale on the transformation of agricultural mechanization services:Evidence from China. [PDF]

PLoS One
Zheng Q, Liu J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Scaling agricultural mechanization services in smallholder farming systems: Case studies from sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America.

Agric Syst, 2020
Van Loon J, Woltering L, Krupnik TJ, Baudron F, Boa M, Govaerts B.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source