OPTIMAL LAND, EQUIPMENT AND LABOR ALLOCATION UNDERALTERNATIVE TILLAGE SYSTEMS IN SOUTH TEXAS

摘要

The paper presents results from a mixed integer, whole farm analysis that explicitly model machinery and full-time labor is bestto analyze tillage studies. When decoupled farm payments are excluded, the economics of crop farming in the study arearequires a large scale to be economically viable. Furthermore, the results highlight that crop, technology, and equipment selectionis misleading if decoupled payments are included. The results show that if, at a given scale, there isn’t enough time foradditional acres of conventional crop/tillage systems, growers might be able to reduce fixed costs and increase returns/acre byadding residual amounts of reduced tillage crops..