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Strategies for Wheat Production in the Great Plains
Author(s) -
Burt Oscar R.,
Johnson Ralph D.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.2307/1236944
Subject(s) - production (economics) , agronomy , environmental science , agricultural engineering , biology , engineering , economics , macroeconomics
A sequential decision model is formulated for wheat‐fallow decisions on land use. Dynamic programming is used to refine and extend earlier work which used an expected‐value criterion. Asymptotic variances and covariances of net returns are derived for the Markovian models implied by various strategies, and these are used to analyze strategies based on the joint criteria of expected value and variance of net returns.