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Optimal Management Strategies for Alfalfa Production Within a Total Farm Plan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

David L. Debertin  and
Angelos Pagoulatos
David L. Debertin
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky
Angelos Pagoulatos
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky
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Abstract

This paper examines the impacts of alternative management strategies for the production of alfalfa within the context of a total farm plan. A linear programming model is used to represent a 600-acre farm which can grow either grain crops or alfalfa. Alfalfa production competes with the grain crops for available land, labor, machinery, and field time over a calendar of tillage, planting, cutting, spraying, and harvesting activities. The profitability of an acre of alfalfa and the contribution of alfalfa to net returns for the farm varies quite widely depending on the particular alfalfa management strategy selected.

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alfalfamanagementoptimizationlinear programmingtotal farm planproduction
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , December 1985 , pp. 127 - 138
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1985

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