Campus Units

Economics

Document Type

Article

Publication Version

Published Version

Publication Date

2-1988

Journal or Book Title

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volume

70

Issue

1

First Page or Article ID Number

103

Last Page

111

DOI

10.2307/1241980

Abstract

A model of optimal dynamic agricultural supply is derived and fitted assuming farmers have two annual stochastic crop production activities, a joint limitation on production capacity, interdependencies between past acreage utilization and current productivity, and rational expectations. A five-equation specification is fitted to annual data, 1948–80. Estimated parameters are consistent with the theory, and the model simulates well. The long-run price elasticity of corn acreage is 0.2, which is similar to those obtained from ad hoc dynamic models, but our short-run elasticities are different.

Comments

This article is from American Journal of Agricultural Economics 70 (1988): 103, doi: 10.2307/1241980.

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Language

en

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