rents. We model a corn farmer's production choice among four systems: traditional, herbicide-resistant, insect resistant …

perceived to improve farm financial performance. This study develops and applies an econometric model to data from corn and …

stations. Conditional moments (including mean, variance and skewness) of corn yield, grain moisture and corn profit are …The paper investigates the linkages between technological change and production risk, with an application to corn. The … well as downside risk in corn production, although this effect varies across sites. They also stress the role of the …

data from a survey of 1,205 U.S. cotton, corn, and soybean growers, count data models were estimated to explain the total … variation (CV) for yield of their primary crop. Yield expectations and variability were significant predictors of the frequency … effective if they target a minority of growers and the three practices with low adoption rates. Counties with a high yield CV …

irrigation strategies much more critical. Maximizing yield reduces profit by between $22 and $158 per acre depending on the … combination of corn and natural gas prices. …

perceptions of the yield potential were most influential, with almost half of respondents believing current durum wheat varieties … yield and profitability. …

farm-level survey data. Adopters gain the equivalent of 7-16% (depending on the variety) in bean income from the yield loss …

the central market price of imported rice and prices in the local markets. This implies that the prices of imported rice … in these local markets do not share common properties or behaviour with prevailing price trends in the central market …