Fig. 2: Histograms of Monte Carlo simulations for comparing agronomic impacts for rice and barley. | npj Sustainable Agriculture

Fig. 2: Histograms of Monte Carlo simulations for comparing agronomic impacts for rice and barley.

From: Evaluating the costs of alternative malting grains for market adaptation: a case study on rice malt production in the U.S

Fig. 2

Agronomic yield (A) and yield per extract (B) of barley and rice.Equivalent harvested area (C) and percentage of rice and barley harvested area required to supply the same amount of extract (fermentable sugars) from the current production of barley malt from the malting industry (D). It was considered a malt production of 2.38 mi t and all extract from barley malt being provided from either malting barley (USA, red), pureline long grain rice (AR, black), hybrid long grain rice (AR, green), pureline medium grain (AR, blue), average long grain rice (AR, gray line; USA, dashed gray) and medium (AR, purple line; USA dashed purple), or milled rice (AR, dotted black). Results are from supplementary equations (SE) 49–51 in Supplementary Information. Figures were generated using Microsoft Office 365 (Excel and Powerpoint).

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