David L. Debertin is Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. He has been on the University of Kentucky Agricultural Economics faculty since 1974 with a specialization in agricultural production and community resource economics. He received a B.S. and an M.S. degree from North Dakota State University, and completed a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University in 1973. He has taught the introductory graduate level course in agricultural production economics in each year he has been at the University of Kentucky. This is a book of full-col...