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Optimal Stocking Density for Dual-Purpose Winter Wheat Production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Simeon Kaitibie ,
Francis M. Epplin ,
B. Wade Brorsen ,
Gerald W. Horn ,
Eugene G. Krenzer Jr.  and
Steven I. Paisley
Simeon Kaitibie
Affiliation:
Jean and Patsy Neustadt Chair, Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Francis M. Epplin
Affiliation:
Jean and Patsy Neustadt Chair, Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
B. Wade Brorsen
Affiliation:
Jean and Patsy Neustadt Chair, Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Gerald W. Horn
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Science, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Eugene G. Krenzer Jr.
Affiliation:
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Steven I. Paisley
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
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Abstract

Dual-purpose winter wheat production is an important economic enterprise in the southern Great Plains of the United States. Because of the complex interactions involved in producing wheat grain and beef gain from a single crop, stocking density is an important decision. The objective of the research is to determine the stocking density that maximizes expected net returns from dual-purpose winter wheat production. Statistical tests rejected a conventional linear-response plateau function in favor of a linear-response stochastic plateau function. The optimal stocking density of 1.48 steers/ha (0.60 steers/acre) is 19% greater with a stochastic than with a nonstochastic plateau.

Keywords

dual purposeresponse functionstochastic plateaustocking densitywheatR32Q12C29D21
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , April 2003 , pp. 29 - 38
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2003

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