An Econometric Model of Dynamic and Stochastic Production with Explicit Optimization: Farmers' Decisions on Corn and Soybean Acreage

Abebayehu Tegene, Wallace Huffman and John Miranowski

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Abstract: A model of optimal dynamic agricultural supply is derived and hired assuming farmers have two annual stochastic crop production activities, a joint limitation on production capacity, interdependencies between past acreage utilization and current productivity, and rational expectations. A five-equation specification is fitted to annual data, 1948-80 Estimated parameters are consistent with the theory, and the model simulates well The long-run price elasticity of corn acreage is 0.2, which is similar to those obtained from ad hoc dynamic models, but our short-run elasticities are different

Date: 1988-02-01
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Published in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, February 1988, vol. 70 no. 1, pp. 103-111

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