出版社：U.S. Department of Agriculture * Economic Research Service
摘要：The recent historic rise in farm input costs and wheat prices has had economic effects
on the U.S. wheat sector. A cumulative distribution of forecasted production costs for
wheat farms shows that current high (but falling) wheat prices will allow a greater
share of producers to cover their production costs in 2008 (90 percent) than in 2004
(82 percent), despite higher input costs in 2008. However, if farm-gate prices for wheat
continue to fall into 2009, and if prices for inputs do not drop off similarly, many more
wheat producers may fi nd themselves unable to cover production costs and the U.S.
wheat sector may see further attrition of planted area.
关键词：wheat, price, inputs, costs of production, profi tability, Agricultural
Resource Management Survey.
