Economic analysis of reduced tillage wheat and grain sorghum rotations in western Kansas

Johnson, O.S. and Williams, J.R. and Gwin, R.W. and Mikesell, C.L. (1986) Economic analysis of reduced tillage wheat and grain sorghum rotations in western Kansas. Other. Kansas State University, Agricultural Experiment Station, Manhattan, Kansas, USA.

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Abstract

Reduced tillage systems for wheat and grain sorghum were compared with conventional systems typical of the central Great Plains. Yield data from the Tribune Branch Experiment Station and season average price data from west central Kansas were used with 1984 cost of production estimates to determine expected returns to a representative 2,000 acre dryland farm for each system. In general, the reduced tillage systems generated higher returns than the other cropping systems considered. Risk analysis revealed that farmers who were risk adverse would likely prefer the reduced tillage wheat-fallow system to conventional systems. Those who were risk neutral would likely prefer the reduced tillage wheat-sorghum-fallow system

Item Type:	Monograph (Other)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Wheat; Sorghum bicolor; Tillage; Rotations; Fallow systems; Economic analysis; USA; Kansas
Author Affiliation:	Former Graduate student, Department of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University
Subjects:	Soil Science and Microbiology > Soil Sciences
Divisions:	Sorghum
Depositing User:	Ms K Syamalamba
Date Deposited:	08 Nov 2013 06:12
Last Modified:	08 Nov 2013 06:12
URI:	http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/12119

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