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South Dakota State University

Economics Research Reports

1987

Crop enterprises

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Cost Of Production And Net Returns For Alternative Farming Systems In Northeastern South Dakota: 1986 And "Normalized" Situations, Thomas Dobbs, Lyle A. Weiss, Mark G. Leddy Jul 1987

Cost Of Production And Net Returns For Alternative Farming Systems In Northeastern South Dakota: 1986 And "Normalized" Situations, Thomas Dobbs, Lyle A. Weiss, Mark G. Leddy

Economics Research Reports

This report is a product of the initial year of research under South Dakota State University (SDSU) Agricultural Experiment Station Project H-076. entitled "Economics of Farming Systems Alternatives in Eastern South Dakota". The overall objective of this research project is to determine the economic practicality in eastern South Dakota of "alternative" farming systems which may entail less use of chemical fertilizers. pesticides. and herbicides than do "conventional" systems. The initial step in achieving that overall objective is to make preliminary estimates of crop enterprise and farming system costs and returns. We have done this for two sets of farming systems …