Crop production costs in Missouri bootheel
Abstract
"Enterprise records of Bootheel Area farmers enrolled in the University's Mail-In-Record program indicate that the average total cost of producing an acre of cotton increased from $177.48 to $235.75 between 1972 and 1974. The cost of producing an acre of corn increased from $150.34 to $201.30. Per acre soybean production cost increased from $89.89 to $113.14, and that of wheat, from $82.43 to $95.82. These farmers' records also indicate there has been a gradual reduction in the trips across fields with machinery and equipment. It is not completely clear whether this is because of the substitution of another input (herbicides) for labor and machinery or because of weather conditions or both."--from Introduction
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