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Structure of South Central Agricultural Production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2016

Rudolph A. Poison  and
C. Richard Shumway
Rudolph A. Poison
Affiliation:
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, formerly a Research Assistant, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
C. Richard Shumway
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
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Abstract

Using a dual economic specification of a multiproduct technology, the structure of agricultural production was tested for five South Central states (Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana). A comprehensive set of output supplies and input demands comprised the estimation equations in each state. Evidence of nonjoint production in a subset of commodities was detected in four of the five states. Several commodities also satisfied sufficient conditions for consistent aggregation. However, the specific outputs satisfying each structural property varied by state. Sufficient conditions for consistent geographic aggregation across the states were not satisfied. These results provide empirical guidance and important cautions for legitimately simplifying state-level model specifications of southern agricultural production.

Keywords

dual modelsgeographic aggregationnonjointnessseparability
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , December 1990 , pp. 153 - 163
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1990

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