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The Red Queen and the Hard Reds: Productivity Growth in American Wheat, 1800-1940 [PDF]

The standard treatment of U.S. agriculture asserts that, before the 1930s, productivity growth was almost exclusively the result of mechanization rather than biological innovations. This paper shows that, to the contrary, U.S.
Paul W. Rhode, Alan L. Olmstead
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TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF CHINESE GRAIN PRODUCTION: A STOCHASTIC PRODUCTION FRONTIER APPROACH

This article examines technical efficiency of the Chinese grain sector using the framework of stochastic production frontier. The results reveal that: the marginal products of labor and fertilizer are much smaller than that of land; human capital and ...
Huffman, Wallace E., Rozelle, Scott, Chen, Adam Zhuo   +2 more
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THE EFFECT OF COMBINATIONS OF ORGANIC MATERIALS AND BIOFERTILISERS ON PRODUCTIVITY, GRAIN QUALITY, NUTRIENT UPTAKE AND ECONOMICS IN ORGANIC FARMING OF WHEAT

, 2012
Organic farming often has to deal with a scarcity of readily available nutrients, and this is in contrast to chemical farming which relies on soluble fertilisers.
Davari, Mohammadreza, Mirzakhani, Mohammad, Sharma, Shri Niwas   +2 more
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Strategic grain reserves in Ethiopia: Institutional design and operational performance [PDF]

Holding strategic grain reserves to address food price hikes has received renewed attentions in recent years. This paper examines such a program in Ethiopia that has been successful in addressing several emergencies since the 1990s. The analysis suggests
Rashid, Shahidur, Lemma, Solomon
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Ecological study of parental forms of simple sterile maize hybrids

Зерновое хозяйство России
The current paper has presented the results of 2020–2022 testing carried out with ten parental forms of maize hybrids in such three locations, differing in moisture availability and other growing conditions as FSBSI “All-Russian Research Institute of ...
A. G. Gorbacheva, G. Ya. Krivosheev, A. S. Ignatiev, N. A. Orlyanskaya   +3 more
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How fast have China's agricultural production and productivity really been growing?: new measurement and evidence [PDF]

Output in Chinese agriculture has grown rapidly for the last several decades, as reported by the Statistical System in China. However, reported total output is aggregated using constant prices, which has been proven to be inappropriate by many economists.
Fan, Shenggen
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Don wheat: productivity and grain quality, competitiveness and varietal diversit

, 2018
Don wheat: productivity and grain quality, competitiveness and varietal diversity In the structure of grain crops, winter wheat occupies 74% of the area, and yields about 80% of gross amount.
K. A. Miroshnikov, E. V. Ionova, M. M. Kopus, D. P. Dorokhova   +3 more
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The Impact of Ethanol Production on Spatial Grain Market Relationships

cointegration, ethanol, grain markets, spatial relationships, Agribusiness, Agricultural and Food Policy, Agricultural Finance, Demand and Price Analysis, Land Economics/Use, Production Economics, Productivity Analysis,
Lewis, Karen E., Tonsor, Glynn T.
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Use of geographic and edaphoclimatic information for the selection of soybeans for organic environments in current and future scenarios

Revista Ceres
The objective of this work was to select soybean genotypes for different organic growing environments, based on geographic and soil climatic information and use of predictions of meteorological variables for future scenarios. The experiment was conducted
Rafael Wirzbicki Casarotto, Ivan Ricardo Carvalho, Leonardo Cesar Pradebon, Murilo Vieira Loro, Willyan Júnior Adorian Bandeira, João Pedro Dalla Roza, Deivid Araújo Magano, José Antonio Gonzalez da Silva, Aljian Antonio Alban, Marcio Alberto Challiol   +9 more
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U.S. GRAIN HANDLING AND TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM: FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE DYNAMIC CHANGES IN THE 1980S AND 1990S

This paper describes the important changes that occurred in the U.S. grain handling and transportation system in the period following deregulation in 1980.
Wilson, William W.
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