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Agricultural Land Use Choice: A Discrete Choice Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

Roger Claassen  and
Abebayehu Tegene
Roger Claassen
Affiliation:
Resource Economics Division of USDA's Economic Research Service, 1800 M Street, Washington DC 20036-5828
Abebayehu Tegene
Affiliation:
Resource Economics Division of USDA's Economic Research Service, 1800 M Street, Washington DC 20036-5828
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Abstract

A discrete choice model and site-specific data are used to analyze land use choices between crop production and pasture in the Corn Belt. The results show that conversion probabilities depend on relative returns, land quality, and government policy. In general it is found that landowners are less inclined to remove land from crop production than to convert land to crop production.

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Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , April 1999 , pp. 26 - 36
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Copyright © 1999 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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