Numerous observers have charged US agricultural data systems with conceptual obsolescence Although some modernization has occurred, particularly in providing information about commercial farms, agricultural and rural data bases have failed to keep up with production and structural changes in the...

A summary function describing the relationship between output level, conservation reserve program (CRP) acreage, and production costs for major US field crops indicates that extending the CRP from 40 million to 44 million acres in 1990 could raise the bid price for CRP land as much as 7 percent....

The regression method of adjustment for price changes produces estimates that are close to those produced by the reclassification method, especially when the results are aggregated into three sales classes The difference between the two methods is greatest for the smallest sales classes Although...