Structure of the U.S. and West Texas Early Summer Onion Markets

Bob Davis and Billy R. Hise

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1979, vol. 11, issue 1, 107-112

Abstract: In recent years, producers in West Texas have sought alternatives to traditional field crops in an effort to maintain or increase farm income. Declining groundwater supplies available for irrigation and sharply increasing fuel costs have served to reduce returns from traditional field crops. Vegetables, which offer much higher average returns per acre, are one alternative to field crops. However, production of vegetable crops introduces some difficult problems. The price of most vegetables is very erratic from season to season and often within the same season. Though on the average the income received per acre from vegetables is much higher, the risk of loss due to low prices for vegetables is also much higher.

Date: 1979
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