 ORGANIZATION OF TOBACCO FARMS UNDER ACREAGE AND ACREAGE-POUNDAGE CONTROL PROGRAMS, CENSUS SUBREGION 17, NORTH CAROLINABob Davis and Loren A. Ihnen No 259535, Department of Economics and Business - Archive from North Carolina State University, Department of Economics Abstract: The objective of this report was to describe changes in the structure and organization of flue-cured tobacco farms which occurred following replacement of the acreage control program with an acreagepoundage program. Farmer survey data from Census Subregion 17 for 1964 and 1967 were analyzed. An average farm, constructed from the data, was used to compare the organization of farms under the two control programs. In addition, five farm sizes were delineated based on acreage of cropland in 1964 and 1967 so that changes in farm organization for farms with different resource situations could be estimated. Only minor changes in tobacco practices occurred following the change in Government programs from acreage to acreage-poundage controls. Tobacco varieties were changed, plant population per acre and fertilization levels were reduced slightly, but use of most technical innovations such as new chemicals remained constant. Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:ncbuar:259535 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Department of Economics and Business - Archive from North Carolina State University, Department of Economics |
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