| Acreage allocation decisions by farmers have been identified as one of the causes of the decline in Michigan's navy bean production. Growing navy beans in successive years or in short rotation with other crops that return little organic matter to the soil has been shown to adversely affect soil structure, depletion of organic matter, and increase disease and pest problems. Furthermore, a large portion of the instability present in the quantity of navy beans produces, and therefore in prices and revenue, is directly related to variability in acreage allocation decisions of growers. In consequence, the problem as it is seen in this paper is one of resource allocation decisions by farmers. There is a need for defining a navy bean production strategy,... |
