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Reply: Energy Accounting: The Case of Farm Machinery in Maryland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Phillips Foster
Affiliation:
Agricultural and Resource Economics Department, University of Maryland, College Park
Dennis Wichelns
Affiliation:
Agricultural and Resource Economics Department, University of Maryland, College Park

Extract

The most important issue raised in the comment by Bradford involves the problem of how to handle the fact that, although the logical period for accounting for energy use on the farm is one year, farm machinery is typically used over a period of several years. No solution to this problem will be entirely satisfactory, and the alternative offered by Bradford has its own difficulties. Nevertheless, the Bradford alternative is worth trying, and this response to the comment will consider briefly his proposal.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1981

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