Seo, Sangtaek; Mitchell, Paul D.; Leatham, David J. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 37 (2005) 03
We analyze the effects of crop insurance and the Marketing Loan Program on optimal nitrogen use and acreage allocation for a case cotton-sorghum farm in Texas. A mathematical programming model is used to solve for the optimal nitrogen fertilizer rate, crop acreage allocation, coverage level, and...