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Returns to Tillage Systems under Changing Input and Output Market Conditions

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: Costs and net returns for conventional tillage (CT), reducedtillage (RT) and no-tillage (NT) are evaluated for five cropping systems: continuous soybean, a soybean-grain sorghum rotation, a soybean-wheat rotation, continuous grain sorghum and continuous wheat, over a period of increasing input and output prices, 2006-2008. NT had the highest net return for all of the systems with soybeans each year. NT also had the lowest energy use for all systems. The net returns of NT increased relative to CT and RT from 2006 to 2008 for all of the systems with soybeans. However, this increase in net returns was a result of increasing commodity prices rather than a slower increase in costs for NT.

Source: RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.189851

Authors: Williams, Jeffery, Pendell, Dustin, Llewelyn, Richard, Peterson, Dallas, Nelson, Richard

Language: English

Topic: Soil Management and Crop Yield

Subfield: Soil Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDGs: Zero hunger, Climate action

Open Access status: green

Funders: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

Award: G1131000928