A method is developed to estimate jointly risk preferences and technology under general conditions. The approach is illustrated in an application to the analysis of U.S. corn-soybean acreage decisions over time. The results provide useful information on the nature of farmers' risk preferences and on the influence of price risk and production risk on acreage allocation and fanners' welfare.

Agricultural production in the Midwestern US is highly concentrated with 85% percent of cropland acreage planted to only corn and soybeans (NASS, 2006). Crop specialization has improved the productivity and market efficiency of grain based commodity crops, but maintaining profitability has become increasingly difficult as input prices continue to rise while grain prices fluctuate substantially ...

Unlike most crops which have moved east-west, alfalfa gained its fIrst important foothold in North America in the valleys and deserts of California in the 18505 after the Gold Rush. Alfalfa played a crucial role in the agriculture of California before the development of the high value fI11it and vegetable crops which now are widely associated with the state's agriculture. Although alfalfa acrea...

Abstract The literature has documented that climate change is likely to reduce crop yields of harvested acres in the United States. This study uses panel data methods document could also area. We find ‘crop failures’ are sensitive spring and fall temperature conditions. Using perturbations precipitation conditions, we show a uniform 1 ∘ C increase across U.S. with no adaptation expected cause a...

The purpose of this study is to investigate comparative advantages of corn in comparison with other competitor crops. To do so, Linear Programming, to 2004-2005 data related to classic index (DRC) in Kermanshah province was applied. Results showed that corn has comparative advantages in all regions of Kermanshah province while in optimal cultivation pattern of 37.5 percentages of regions in exi...

SIDR had great impact on crop, livestock and fisheries at Pirojpur district in Barisal Division. To perform this study data were collected from the three selected village (south Shailkati, Hothkhali and Lahori) affected people by random sampling after selecting the study topic and area. SIDR also created a great impact on the production of different types of crop. Rice production was reduced to...

Many remote sensing applications are devoted to the agricultural sector. Representative case studies are presented in the special issue “Advances in Remote Sensing of Agriculture”. To complement the examples published within the special issue, a few main applications with regional to global focus were selected for this review, where remote sensing contributions are traditionally strong. The sel...

Rye (Secale cereale L.) serves as an alternative host of Pyrenophora tritici-repentis (PTR) the cause of tan spot on wheat. Rye is cultivated as a forage or cover crop and overlaps with a significant portion of wheat acreage in the U.S. northern Great Plains; however, it is not known whether the rye crop influences the evolution of PTR races. We evaluated a global collection of 211 rye accessio...

The necessary agroclimatic conditions for the growth and development of technical crops on territory republic, terms phenological phases, prerequisites their cultivation space, level yield crop yields have beenanalyzed evaluated. As a source information, actual data agrometeorological observations GEO «Center Hydrometeorology Monitoring» Ministry Environment Republic Armenia National Statistica...

The article examines the dynamics of achieving main targets for crop production in Russian Federation and identifies nature problems associated with under-fulfillment some indicators production. commodity structure export/import 2021, expansion acreage agricultural crops are analyzed, information is provided on achievement planned values it proved that Russia has reached food security almost al...