caa a22 4500 386316651 CHVBK 20180307111607.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0081305200017672 doi S0081305200017672 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0081305200017672 Factor Demands of Louisiana Rice Producers: An Econometric Investigation [Elektronische Daten] [Patricia E. McLean-Meyinsse, Albert Ade. Okunade] A Diewert-flexible (dual) cost function was used to derive a system of conditional factor demand equations for Louisiana rice producers. Generalized Leontief cost and factor share equations were fitted for the 1955-87 period using Zellner's SURE system estimation procedure. The Aitken parameter estimates reveal that: (1) the optimal input mix of rice farmers varies with production scale, (2) the factor-augmenting technical change is labor and chemical saving but seed using, (3) pairwise input substitutions are limited, and (4) factor demands are own-price inelastic. An implication is that Louisiana rice farmers will not appreciably alter their factor utilizations when relative input prices change. Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1988 rice production nationallicence conditional factor demands nationallicence dual cost function nationallicence flexible functional specification nationallicence factor-augmenting technical change nationallicence factor substitution possibilities nationallicence nonhomothetic production technology nationallicence McLean-Meyinsse Patricia E. Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Southern University (Baton Rouge) aut Okunade Albert Ade Economics at Memphis State University aut Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics Cambridge University Press 20/2(1988-12), 127-136 0081-3052 20:2<127 1988 20 AAE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0081305200017672 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0081305200017672 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McLean-Meyinsse Patricia E. Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Southern University (Baton Rouge) aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Okunade Albert Ade Economics at Memphis State University aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics Cambridge University Press 20/2(1988-12), 127-136 0081-3052 20:2<127 1988 20 AAE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge