Prior to the 2000 planting season, some industry obsemers predicted acreage of genetically modified crops would decline dramatically. However, actual 2000 plantings presented a puzzle. Farmers reduced their acreage of genetically modified corn, but concurrently increased their acreage of genetically modified soybeans. We demonstrate that it may be theoretically optimal for risk-averse farmers t...

∗ Corresponding author: WU Quan, senior engineer, CAAE, mobile phone:+8613621043045 Abstract: Grain production is of great importance to any country, especially to China. It is very important for local and central governments to get accurate main crops acreage information in time. One noticeable problem is that the estimated accuracy for crops acreage in a certain year is not high, so that Remo...

Understanding how producers make decisions to allot acreage among crops and how decisions about land use are affected by changes in prices and their volatility is fundamental for predicting the supply of staple crops and, hence, assessing the global food supply situation. The innovations of the present paper are estimates of monthly (i.e. seasonal) versus annual global acreage response models f...

Rural road improvement that enhances access to input and output markets and agricultural extension services may aid agricultural technology adoption. There is a growing body of literature on the impact of rural roads on technology adoption. However, most studies have so far relied on cross-sectional surveys comparing households with and without road improvement, which have causal attribution pr...

Understanding how producers make decisions to allot acreage among crops and how decisions about land use are affected by changes in prices and their volatility is fundamental for predicting the supply of staple crops and, hence, assessing the global food supply situation. The innovations of the present paper are estimates of monthly (i.e. seasonal) versus annual global acreage response models f...

The recent developments of remote sensing technology, in particular with its improved spatial and temporal resolution, open new possibilities for estimating crop acreage over larger areas. Remotely sensed data allow the estimation of crop acreage independently of sometimes biased and incomplete sub-national survey statistics. This paper presents a methodology on crop acreage estimations using t...

Privately owned forests, wetlands, and crop-lands in the United States are disappearing at alarming rates due to development and erosion , according to a report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on 7 December 1999. The report, which summarizes the USDA's 1997 National Resources Inventory (NRI), reveals that development has doubled during the last decade to-more than three mi...

A multinomial fractional logit model is developed in this article to examine the effects of various market variables, commodity and conservation program payments and county physical attributes on crop acreage allocation and CRP enrollment simultaneously in the Midwest region of the United States. Nine states and eleven years county level panel data are employed to estimate the acreage allocatio...