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Wheat Consumption (wheat + consumption)

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Humanities and Social Sciences	50%

Selected Abstracts

The Irish grain trade from the Famine to the First World War

ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 1 2004
Liam Brunt
This article presents the first consistent and continuous data series for the Irish grain trade, 1840-1914, showing that imports of wheat and maize rose massively. The resulting three-fold increase in Irish per caput wheat consumption occurred mostly before 1875 and brought it close to British levels by 1914. A consumer price index is constructed for the period, and it reveals that prices declined until 1900 and rose thereafter. Using the two new series (per caput wheat consumption and the price index), the authors estimate a demand function for wheat and show that the per caput increase was due to the rise in the real wage. [source]

Practical economics in eighteenth-century England: Charles Smith on the grain trade and the corn laws, 1756,72,

HISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 214 2008
Richard Sheldon
This article examines the role of the writings of Charles Smith in the eighteenth-century debates about the corn laws and the corn trade. Smith stood in between enlightenment theory on the grain trade and its practical application and results. Although his writings are known by economic historians, attention has focused solely on his estimates of wheat consumption, rather than on his economic ideas and their influence. He advocated a pragmatic approach to change, factoring into his analyses regional differences, popular hostility to technical and commercial innovation, the significance of traditional institutions such as the assize of bread, and the limits of ,market integration'. [source]

A laboratory evaluation of the palatability of legumes to the field slug, Deroceras reticulatum Müller

PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE (FORMERLY: PESTICIDE SCIENCE), Issue 3 2003
Andrew S Brooks
Abstract Slugs are major pests of many crops, including winter wheat, in temperate climates, yet current methods of control are often unreliable. The aim of this study is to investigate the potential for common legume species to act as an alternative source of food, or trap crop, for the most damaging agricultural pest species, the grey field slug, Deroceras reticulatum Müller, thereby reducing damage to the wheat crop. A series of three controlled-environment experiments were designed to assess this aim. Individual slugs were fed leaves of one of ten legume species together with winter wheat leaves for a 72-h period. A clear hierarchy of acceptability was shown, with red clover, lucerne, lupin and white clover showing significantly higher Acceptability Indices than the other six species tested. Red clover produced the greatest reduction in mean wheat consumption (78%) from day 1 to day 3. When species were fed individually, red clover was consumed in significantly greater quantities than any of the other treatments: 40% more than white clover and 56% more than wheat. Furthermore, when fed with red clover the amount of wheat consumed was some 50% less than when the latter was fed alone. The results indicate that legumes vary greatly in their acceptability to D reticulatum and it is essential that a legume with a high Acceptability Index is chosen, which results in the least amount of wheat consumed. © 2003 Society of Chemical Industry [source]

Policy reform and farmers' wheat allocation in rural China: a case study,

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL & RESOURCE ECONOMICS, Issue 2 2005
David Buschena
Market-oriented policy reforms often have important effects on farm-level grain production and utilisation decisions in developing countries. China's grain farmers are of particular interest because of China's importance in world grain markets and because of China's recent major agricultural policy advances and retrenchments. An empirical evaluation of market liberalisation among farmers located in two provinces in China on farm-level wheat consumption, market sales and on-farm storage during 1994 is presented. The results indicate that policymakers should account for such changes in farm household behaviour in designing and assessing the consequence of market liberalisation programs for agricultural sectors in developing countries. [source]