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Crop competitiveness and climate change in the northern Great Plains

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Gaurav, A., H. Feng, D. A. Hennessy, and C. J. Anderson. “Crop competitiveness and climate change in the northern Great Plains.” Agriculture and Applied Economics Association, Boston, MA, 2016 July 31 – August 2.

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Abstract (from http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/agsaaea16/235895.htm): We evaluate the regional-level agricultural impacts of climate change in the Northern Great Plains. We first estimate a non-linear yield-weather relationship for all major commodities in the area: corn, soybeans, spring wheat and alfalfa. We separately identify benevolent and harmful temperature thresholds for each commodity, and control for severe-to-extreme dry/wet conditions in our yield models. Analyzing all major commodities in a region extends the existing literature beyond just one crop, most typically corn yields. Alfalfa is particularly interesting since it is a legume-crop that is substitutable with grasses as animal feed and rotated with other row-crops [...]

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  • National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers
  • North Central CASC

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noteThis paper was also presented at Session 6 of the 9th Annual MSU/UM/WMU Energy & Environmental Economics Day, Thursday, August 25, 2016. As of 9/26/2016, the paper was accepted for presentation at the Heartland Workshop on Environmental and Resource Economics, November 12-3th at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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