Summary

The purpose of this analysis is to estimate the economic impacts using input-output analysis for planting one acre of corn based on the University of Tennessee’s most recent row-crop budgets (Smith and Bowling, 2024). In doing so, our analysis is similar to that conducted by Nadreau (2022), using the methodology developed by Willis and Holland (1997), where they converted enterprise budget data to input-output vectors for a Washington state potato study. The study investigated the current state of potato production and the role the crop’s value chain plays in that state’s economy.