Acquiring and Applying Days Suitable for Fieldwork for your State

摘要

Knowledge of the number of dayssuitable for conducting fieldwork isinstrumental to farm managementdecision making especially formachinery, acreage acquisition andcrop allocation decision making.Although each year is unique,understanding historic trends in thenumber of days that fieldwork canbe conducted is useful for farmmanagement decision makers. Thesteps necessary to obtain historicdata from USDA, assemble the datainto a usable database and apply theinformation to a series of farmmanagement decision makingproblems under planting andharvesting situations aredemonstrated.