U.S. Peanut Cost of Production

摘要

Two national data bases are available to determine peanuts’ cost of production. One is the United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service (USDA-ERS) data base and the other is from The University of Georgia National Center for Peanut Competitiveness (NCPC) data base. NCPC has 22 representative peanut farms stretching from Virginia to New Mexico that are proportioned based on state’s share of national peanut production. NCPC is built by personal interviews with peanut farmers while the USDA-ERS peanut budget is built on a survey mailed to peanut farmers.