The Ohio Grain Marketing Legislation of 1982 and 1983

PDF pages: 6

Soybean Shipping Patterns in the United States for 1985

Information about soybean shipping patterns that enables the soybean industry participants to improve market performance through better decision making will contribute to a more efficient flow of soybeans. Such information may improve the investment decisions in port facilities, rail, truck and barge services, elevator and processor facilities, and farm production. The objectives of this paper are to determine regional soybean flows by mode of transportation for 1985 and compare these flows with similar data for 1977. Soybean flow data were collected for the 1985 calendar year through personal interviews, mail surveys and telephone calls with representatives of the soybean handling, storage and processing firms in 36 states. The volume of soybean exports for 1985 is slightly less than for 1977, and the distribution of these exports by region reveals significant changes. The Gulf exports more than any other region and has become relatively more important from 1977 to 1985. Soybean exports from the Great Lakes have declined significantly and the Atlantic region exports have declined slightly in this period. The biggest relative increase in soybean exports occurred in the Pacific region. Changes in international markets, unit train shipment rates and increased size of ocean shipping vessels are the major factors explaining the changes in export shares among regions. This trend may continue into the 1990s affecting production, transportation and shipping patterns by export ports. Barge shipments continue to be the dominant mode of transportation for export soybeans, accounting for 73 percent of all movements in 1985 compared to 61 percent in 1977. Truck and rail shipments declined from 16 to 8 percent and 23 to 19 percent, respectively, in this same period. Transportation deregulation does not appear to have helped the railroad compete for export bound soybeans. Strong competition among modes of transportation due to excess capacity in rail and barge transportation facilities in 1985 may explain this failure of railroads to gain market share relative to barge shipments. The elimination of the excess capacity since 1985 may change the rail-barge competitive structure during the 1990s

A Multi-Sectoral Analysis of Feed Grain Exports in the Cornbelt Economy

Exact date of working paper unknown.Large feed grain export variations adversely impact the agricultural sector and the Cornbelt economy. A multi-sectoral input-output linear programming model is developed to measure the cross industry effects of a ten percent· increase in feed grain exports. Base model, elastic labor supply, and full employment labor supply results are presented

The Remarkable Be Star HD110432

HD110432 has gained considerable attention because it is a hard, variable X-ray source similar to gamma Cas. From time-serial echelle data obtained over two weeks during 2005 January and February, we find several remarkable characteristics in the star's optical spectrum. The line profiles show rapid variations on some nights which can be most likely be attributed to irregularly occurring and short-lived migrating subfeatures. Such features have only been observed to date in gamma Cas and AB Dor, two stars for which it is believed magnetic fields force circumstellar clouds to corotate over the stellar surface. The star's optical spectrum also exhibits a number of mainly FeII and HeI emission features with profiles typical of an optically thin disk viewed edge-on. Using spectral synthesis techniques, we find that its temperature is 9800K +/-300K, that its projected area is a remarkably large 100 stellar areas, and its emitting volume resides at a distance of 1 AU from the star. We also find that the star's absorption profiles extend to +/-1000 km/s, a fact which we cannot explain. Otherwise, HD110432 and gamma Cas share similarly peculiar X-ray and optical characteristics such as high X-ray temperature, erratic X-ray variability on timescales of a few hours, optical emission lines, and submigrating features in optical line profiles. Because of these similarities, we suggest that this star is a new member of a select class of "gamma Cas analogs."Comment: 31 pages, 9 figures, accepted by ApJ (3/20/06

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 3

• The End of the Horse and Buggy Era • Moravian Architecture and Town Planning: A Review • Humor in a Friendly World • Chickens and Chicken Houses in Rural Pennsylvania • Eighteenth-Century Emigrants to America from the Duchy of Zweibrucken and the Germersheim District • Horse-Drawn Transportation: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 11https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/1035/thumbnail.jp