, uncertainty arises from weather and climatic conditions. (Dis)investment in irrigation technology on farms has become more … choose to postpone (dis)investments that appear to be immediately profitable. We combine investment and disinvestment … investment and disinvestment behavior of farmers. In our study, we consider a simple optimal stopping (dis)investment problem in …

assess its effect on output as decomposed into yield and harvested acreage. Four woody-perennial crops and one field … output for several perennial crops and the field crop, but it only has a significant positive effect on yield for certain … insured crops and causes harvested acreage to expand. The positive significant effect of insurance supply on yield for several …

way to estimate conditional crop yield distributions. We present a moment based model that extends previous approaches in … several dimensions, and can be easily estimated using standard econometric estimators. Upon identification of the yield … climate and irrigation affect the shape of the yield distribution, and compare our findings to other moment based approaches …

We decompose yield difference relative to a reference level into components attributable to (1) efficiency difference … the contributions to yield relative to a reference unit in terms of the quadripartite decomposition finding that results … found to be negatively correlated to yield with usual finite moments regression methods. Also nonparamteric correlation …

period 1977- 2007. This research estimates total supply response by aggregating yield and acreage responses. Previous methods … have effectively analyzed the response of crop supply through either acreage or yield responses. However, the method … proposed in this research incorporates both yield and acreage response to various production variables through recursive …

productivity improvements through a combination of yield improvements and cost reductions. Thus, this technology has had an impact …

counterparts as it indicates that most of the projected yield damages are accounted during the flowering period, a relatively short … period in the crop cycle. This should open the door to more advanced yield models that account for additional possibilities …