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Legal Guide For New Hampshire Agricultural Producers, Amy Manzelli, Jason Reimers, Stephen Wagner, Rachel Armstrong, Erin Hannum
Legal Guide For New Hampshire Agricultural Producers, Amy Manzelli, Jason Reimers, Stephen Wagner, Rachel Armstrong, Erin Hannum
UNH Cooperative Extension
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Integrated Optimization Of Farmland Cultivation And Fertilizer Application: Implications For Farm Management And Food Security, Onur Boyabatli, Lusheng Shao, Yangfang (Helen) Zhou
Integrated Optimization Of Farmland Cultivation And Fertilizer Application: Implications For Farm Management And Food Security, Onur Boyabatli, Lusheng Shao, Yangfang (Helen) Zhou
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
Motivated by the fresh produce industry, this paper studies a farmer's joint cultivation and fertilizer (a representative farm input) application decisions facing uncertainties in crop's open market price, harvesting cost, and farm yield, where yield is stochastically increasing in the fertilizer application rate. We develop a two-stage stochastic program that captures the trade offs facing a farmer growing a commodity crop in a single season to maximize the expected profit. We then use the model to evaluate the expected optimal harvest volume (a measure of food security). Our analytical analysis is complemented with numerical experiments calibrated to data. We characterize …