Intercountry Competition in the Production and Export of Soybeans

Alan S. Walter

No 329318, Miscellaneous Publications from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: Excerpt from the paper: The soybean industry has been a rapidly growing and changing industry in the past few decades with the increase in production and export of this commodity unmatched by any other oil crop. This paper is directed to the competition in the production and export of soybeans. Since soybeans are only one of a number of oil crops produced in large volumes, any intercountry analysis should include the alternative crops. The first of two major theses that I intend to present is that the intercountry competition, when strictly limited to soybeans, has been historically unimportant but is now growing rapidly. The second thesis is that the intercountry competition is somewhat greater when other oil crops are considered, but the major soybean producing countries still remain responsible for a large and growing percentage of the total world supply of oil crops.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; International Relations/Trade; Livestock Production/Industries; Productivity Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18
Date: 1975-08
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.329318

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