Reduced tillage systems for wheat and grain sorghum were compared with conventional systems typical of the central Great Plains. Yield data from the Tribune Branch Experiment Station and season average price data from west central Kansas were used with 1984 cost of production estimates to determine expected returns to a representative 2,000 acre dryland farm for each system. In general, the reduced tillage systems generated higher returns than the other cropping systems considered. Risk analysis revealed that farmers who were risk adverse would likely prefer the reduced tillage wheat-fallow system to conventional systems. Those who were risk neutral would likely prefer the reduced tillage wheat-sorghum-fallow system.

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