IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/midagr/10958.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

A Regional Crop Acreage Model: Estimation Of Acreage Response To Government Programs For The East South Central Region In The U.S. With A Forecast For 1982-1985

Author

Listed:
  • Wu, Tzongyun Katy

Abstract

Since the early 1930's, congress has established a number of programs intended to soften the impact of economic forces upon farmers. These programs seek to adjust production to utilization on a year-to-year basis by offering incentives to producers to expand or contract their crop planting. As a result, accurate estimates of producer response to changing market prices and government programs are very important for policy makers as they attempt to adjust programs to balance demand and supply. Good forecasts of future crop acreages can also help economists provide producers and agribusinesses with better guides for strategies and planning, marketing, and production decisions. The objective of this study is to forecast acreage planted for a specific region using both national government policy variables and region-specific variables. Two aspects of acreage planted which are of particular interest are: (1) whether or not national variables can be used in the regional model, and (2) what additional information can be added to improve the regional model.

Suggested Citation

  • Wu, Tzongyun Katy, 1982. "A Regional Crop Acreage Model: Estimation Of Acreage Response To Government Programs For The East South Central Region In The U.S. With A Forecast For 1982-1985," Graduate Research Master's Degree Plan B Papers 10958, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:midagr:10958
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.10958
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/10958/files/pb82wu01.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.10958?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Crop Production/Industries;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:midagr:10958. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/damsuus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.