Du, Xiaodong; Hennessy, David A. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
the effect of land spatial heterogeneity on cash rental rates. The lacunarity index is employed to measure spatial … heterogeneity of land quality, which is built directly upon a soil quality measure, the land parcel’s corn suitability rating index …-2009. As expected, land spatial heterogeneity has a statistically significant and negative effect on local cash rent rates. The …