Impacts of the Administration's 2007 Farm Bill Proposal on Representative Crops, Dairy and Beef Cattle Farms -- Revised [PDF]
For the first time in two decades, the Secretary of Agriculture provided the House and Senate Agriculture Committees a farm bill proposal from the Administration.
Anderson, David P. +4 more
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The Impacts of U.S. Cotton Programs on the World Market: An Analysis of Brazilian and African WTO Petitions [PDF]
Brazil, supported by Australia challenged U.S. cotton programs at the September 2003 meeting of the WTO settlement Body. Brazil complained that U.S. cotton subsidies such as marketing loans, export credits, commodity certificates, direct payments and ...
Ethridge, Don E. +3 more
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MODELING MULTIVARIATE CROP YIELD DENSITIES WITH FREQUENT EXTREME EVENTS [PDF]
Measuring the lower tail of a crop yield distribution is important for managing agricultural production risk and rating crop insurance. Common parametric techniques encounter difficulties when attempting to model extreme yield events.
Chen, Shu-Ling, Miranda, Mario J.
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CAN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN THE MARGINAL LANDS CONTRIBUTE TO IMPROVING FOOD SECURITY IN THE SAHELIAN AFRICAN COUNTRIES: AN EVIDENCE FROM THE BAS-FOND RICE PRODUCTION IN MALI [PDF]
To improve national food security, successive Mali governments have always focused on expanding and intensifying production in the government-managed irrigation schemes (Office du Niger), which account for about 50% of domestic rice production.
Bernsten, Richard H. +5 more
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(Re)-conciliation of genetics and genomics approaches for cotton fiber quality improvement [PDF]
, 2008 The integration of genomics and plant breeding is driven by the increasing availability of sequence resources and by technological developments. The simultaneous measurement of the expression of thousands of genes is possible, and comparisons between ...
Al-Ghazi, Yves +11 more
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PhotosyntheticaPhotosynthesis is extremely sensitive to drought and decreases due to co-occurring stomatal, mesophyll, and biochemical limitations. Few studies have shown the effects of a drought cycle (drought-rewatering) on photosynthesis and water-use efficiency ...
J.M. HAN +4 more
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Decoupling EU Farm Support: Does the New Single Payment Scheme Fit within the Green Box? [PDF]
Recent reform of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has led to a further decoupling of farm support. The EU believes that the new Single Payment Scheme, which replaces the former system of area and headage payments to farmers, tied to production ...
Swinbank, Alan, Tranter, Richard B.
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Evolution of ANT family and regulation of lint percentage by the GhAIL6-GhTPL1 module
Frontiers in Plant ScienceIntroductionThe AINTEGUMENTA/AINTEGUMENTA-like (ANT/AIL) family belongs to the APETALA 2/ETHYLENE RESPONSE FACTOR superfamily and plays a key role in regulating numerous developmental processes.
Jiwen Xu +5 more
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Chemical Composition and Expression Analysis of Oil-Related Genes in Upland Cottonseeds
AgronomyCottonseed is an important resource for edible oil and protein. Here, we evaluated cottonseed oil, protein, and gossypol contents using traditional chemical methods and near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) in diverse upland cotton (n = 456) and ...
Pengfei Liu +6 more
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