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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />",\1:''': '-\"1 <br />tJ~ _;.. v..... . <br /> <br />the world has undergone a fundamental change in the structure of interna- <br /> <br /> <br />tional agricultural commodity trading. The U.S. has become and will con- <br /> <br /> <br />tinue to. be a major producer of agricul tural commodities consumed through- <br /> <br /> <br />out the worl d. <br /> <br />Other Use <br /> <br />Because of the great variation from commodity to commodity in the res- <br />idual uses category, each one is modeled independently with its own <br />equation. Each of the major crops in this category are described below. <br />Wheat is estimated as 9 percent of the sum of food use and feed use. Rice <br />is estimated at 5.929 million cwt in 1960 and projected to grow by .441 <br />million cwt per year thereafter. Soybean other use is estimated to be 50 <br />percent of export quantities plus 9.9 percent of the danestic feed use. <br />Sorghum is estimated at 1.3 percent of feed use. Oats are estimated at 5 <br />percent of the sum of food and feed use. Barley is represented by 49.8 <br />percent of the total food and feed use; rye other use is 165 percent of the <br />domestic food use. Peanuts are modeled as 45 percent of domestic use. <br />Cotton is modeled by moving the per capita demand for cotton into the other <br />use category and setting the per capita demand to zero since the per capita <br />demand is interpreted as a food use. <br /> <br />The higher costs of, and search for, alternative energy sources will <br />also affect both the supply of, and demand for, agricultural output. On <br /> <br />II -33 <br />