IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/uidaer/140526.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Measuring And Explaining The Decline In U.S. Cotton Productivity Growth

Author

Listed:
  • Cooke, Stephen C.
  • Sundquist, W. Burt

Abstract

Tornquist input quantity indexes derived from USDA/SRS/FEDS survey data along with yield data are used to derive total and partial factor productivity measures across time and region for a sample of representative u.s. cotton enterprises. Total factor productivity for u.s. cotton increased only .2% per year between 1974 and 1982 compared to a much higher post-World-War-II growth rate of about 5%. Partial productivity measures revealed that yield growth was about .6% per year, while total input use grew about .4% per year. Among the input categories, capital and labor requirements decreased about 1% per year and materials use increased by about 1.5%. cotton enterprises in selected regions in Alabama and Mississippi gained and those in the Texas High Plains lost competitive advantage relative to enterprises in the California region.

Suggested Citation

  • Cooke, Stephen C. & Sundquist, W. Burt, 1991. "Measuring And Explaining The Decline In U.S. Cotton Productivity Growth," A.E. Research Series 140526, University of Idaho, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uidaer:140526
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.140526
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/140526/files/ui-91-1.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.140526?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Thirtle, Colin G., 1985. "Technological Change and the Productivity Slowdown in Field Crops: United States, 1939-78," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 17(2), pages 33-42, December.
    2. Duffy, Patricia A. & Richardson, James W. & Wohlgenant, Michael K., 1987. "Regional Cotton Acreage Response," Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 19(1), pages 1-11, July.
    3. Stephen C. Cooke & W. Burt Sundquist, 1989. "Cost Efficiency in U.S. Corn Production," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 71(4), pages 1003-1010.
    4. Diewert, W. E., 1976. "Exact and superlative index numbers," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 4(2), pages 115-145, May.
    5. Chan, M W Luke & Mountain, Dean C, 1983. "Economies of Scale and the Tornqvist Discrete Measure of Productivity Growth," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 65(4), pages 663-667, November.
    6. Thirtle, Colin G., 1985. "Technological Change And The Productivity Slowdown In Field Crops: United States, 1939-78," Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 17(2), pages 1-10, December.
    7. Masud, Sharif M. & Lacewell, Ronald D. & Stoll, John R. & Walker, J. Knox & Leser, James F. & Sellar, Christine, 1985. "Impact Of A More Intensive Insect Pest Infestation Level On Cotton Production: Texas High Plains," Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 17(2), pages 1-9, December.
    8. Robert S. Firch, 1973. "Adjustments in a Slowly Declining U. S. Cotton Production Industry," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 55(5), pages 892-902.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Cooke, Stephen C. & Sundquist, W. Burt, 1990. "Scale Economies, Technical Change, And Competitive Advantage In U.S. Soybean Production," 1990 Conference, January 6-9, Albuquerque, New Mexico 260182, Regional Research Committe NC-181: Determinants of Farm Size and Structure.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Cooke, Stephen C. & Sundquist, W. Burt, 1991. "Measuring And Explaining The Decline In U.S. Cotton Productivity Growth," A.E. Research Series 305076, University of Idaho, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.
    2. Cooke, Stephen C., 1991. "Cost Efficiency In U.S. Corn, Soybean, Wheat, and Cotton Production," A.E. Research Series 140529, University of Idaho, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.
    3. Cooke, Stephen C., 1991. "The Impact Of Conservation Tillage Technology On U.S. Wheat Productivity Growth And Regional Competitive Advantage," A.E. Research Series 140527, University of Idaho, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.
    4. Cooke, Stephen C., 1991. "Cost Efficiency In U.S. Corn, Soybean, Wheat, And Cotton Production," A.E. Research Series 305080, University of Idaho, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.
    5. Cooke, Stephen C. & Sundquist, W. Burt, 1990. "Scale Economies, Technical Change, And Competitive Advantage In U.S. Soybean Production," 1990 Conference, January 6-9, Albuquerque, New Mexico 260182, Regional Research Committe NC-181: Determinants of Farm Size and Structure.
    6. Cooke, Stephen C., 1991. "The Impact Of Conservation Tillage Technology On U.S. Wheat Productivity Growth And Regional Competitive Advantage," A.E. Research Series 305077, University of Idaho, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.
    7. Frisvold, George B. & Condon, Peter T., 1998. "The convention on biological diversity and agriculture: Implications and unresolved debates1," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 26(4), pages 551-570, April.
    8. Caracciolo, Francesco & Gotor, Elisabetta & Holloway, Garth J. & Watts, Jamie, 2008. "The Origin, Development And Structure Of Demand For Plant Genetic Resources. The Impact Of The In Trust Agreements To The CGIAR Collections Availability," 82nd Annual Conference, March 31 - April 2, 2008, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, UK 36773, Agricultural Economics Society.
    9. Jean-Christophe Bureau & Jean-Pierre Butault & Jean-Marc Rousselle, 1989. "Les indices de productivité. Aspects méthodologiques et application à l'agriculture," Économie rurale, Programme National Persée, vol. 192(1), pages 88-94.
    10. Salem, M., 1987. "Productivity and Technical Change in Canadian Food and Beverage Industries: 1961-1982," Working Papers 243864, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
    11. McIntosh, Christopher S. & Williams, Albert A., 1992. "Multiproduct Production Choices And Pesticide Regulation In Georgia," Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 24(1), pages 1-10, July.
    12. Emi Nakamura & Masao Nakamura (presenter) & Takanobu Nakajima, 2004. "Measuring Firms’ R&D Effects on Technical Progress: Japan in the 199," Econometric Society 2004 Far Eastern Meetings 414, Econometric Society.
    13. Georg Erber, 1994. "Technical Change, Economies of Scale, and Factor Augmentation: Impacts on Relative Differences in Productivity and Price Competitiveness between U.S. and German Industries," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 93, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    14. Nolan, Elizabeth & Santos, Paulo & Shi, Guanming, 2012. "Market concentration and productivity in the United States corn sector: 2002-2009," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 125941, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    15. Frisvold, George B. & Sullivan, John & Raneses, Anton, 2003. "Genetic improvements in major US crops: the size and distribution of benefits," Agricultural Economics, Blackwell, vol. 28(2), pages 109-119, March.
    16. W. Erwin Diewert & Takanobu Nakajima & Alice Nakamura & Emi Nakamura & Masao Nakamura, 2011. "Returns to scale: concept, estimation and analysis of Japan's turbulent 1964–88 economy," Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 44(2), pages 451-485, May.
    17. Fuglie, Keith & Ballenger, Nicole & Rubenstein, Kelly Day & Klotz, Cassandra & Ollinger, Michael & Reilly, John & Vasavada, Utpal & Yee, Jet, 1996. "Agricultural Research and Development: Public and Private Investments Under Alternative Markets and Institutions," Agricultural Economic Reports 262031, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    18. Cooke, Stephen C., 1991. "Alternative Uses For Crop And Livestock Enterprise Budgets In Research And Extension," A.E. Extension Series 304922, University of Idaho, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.
    19. Barnett, William A. & Erwin Diewert, W. & Zellner, Arnold, 2011. "Introduction to measurement with theory," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 161(1), pages 1-5, March.
    20. Lisbeth Funding la Cour, 1995. "A Component® based Analysis of the danish Long-run Money Demand Relation," Discussion Papers 95-18, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:uidaer:140526. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aeuidus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.