 A Comparison of Risk Between Continuous and Fallow Cropping RegimesLeonard Bauer, Scott R. Jeffrey and Charles C. Orlick No 232397, Project Report Series from University of Alberta, Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology Abstract: The focus of this study is to examine the risk and return trade-offs for various crop rotations and tillage systems. The geographic area represented in this study will be that contained within four soil, and five climatic zones with in the Province of Alberta. The predominant crops grown in these areas (i.e. spring wheat, barley, and canola) were used to derive cost estimates that reflect agronomic processes. The results obtained frome ach of these areas indicate that several generalizations can be made about the interactions of crop rotations, tillage system and farm size. Firstly, the size of predicted net revenue increases and the probability of generating a negative net revenue decreases as one moves north from the Brown soil zone into the Dark Brown and Black soils. Secondly, as one moves from the Brown soil zone through the Black soil zone, less significance can be placed on fallow crop rotations. Lastly, at the current price of the fallow herbicides, conventional tillage systems have a cost advantage over the alternatives tested here. Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Risk and Uncertainty (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:ualbpr:232397 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Project Report Series from University of Alberta, Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology Contact information at EDIRC. |
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