Land use impacts of biofuel expansion have attracted considerable attention because of the implications for climate change, the environment, and food supply. To examine these impacts, we set up an economic framework that links input use and land allocation decisions with ethanol and agricultural commodity markets. Crops can be substitutes or complements in supply depending on the relative magni...

The commodity markets have been bidding for acreage due to bio-fuels creating new markets for corn and soybeans. This demand-driven market may continue to provide marketing opportunities for 2008-2010. Currently, the major decision facing producers is determining the enterprise mix for 2008. This memo compares the Returns over Variable Costs for corn and peanuts and analyzes the break-even yiel...

introduction in recent years due to problems associated with intensive agricultural systems, the role of legumes in the sustainability of cropping systems has been accelerated (draper, 2006). currently, one of the challenges of energy intensive agricultural systems is monoculture, which is associated with low biological diversity (carmine, 2007). iran has been considered as the area with low ag...

A description of Kentucky's land base indicates that of nearly 15 million acres suitable for cropland usage, approximately three-fourths bas an erosion hazard potential of some degree, relating largely to steepness of slope (1). For this reason, there is a large potential acreage of alfalfa and other perennial forage crops relating to their sod forming growth habit which provides them an inhere...