Cooke, Stephen C. - Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Department, … - 1991
Iowa in corn, central Illinois in soybeans, the Washington Palouse and central North Dakota in wheat, and southern … California in cotton relative to the other selected regions in the study. Scale economies exist in corn, soybean and wheat but …Between 1974 and 1983, intertemporal cost efficiency for u.s. field crops increased about 1.4 to 1.2% percent for corn …