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This article presents abstracts of several papers about economics published in a 1962 issue of the Journal of Regional Science. In the article Programming Models of Interdependence Among Agricultural Sectors and Spatial Allocation of Crop Production, Earl O. Heady and Alvin C. Egbert used linear programming models to estimate the efficient allocation of crop production among 104 producing regions of the U.S. The paper An Efficient Algorithm for the Numerical Solution of the Generalized Weber Problem in Spatial Economics presented an iterative algorithm, suitable for desk calculator or for computer, which yields a numerical solution to the Weber problem for any number of points.

The article presents abstracts related to bioscience including "Utilization of Urban Wastes in Crop Production," "Effects of Pesticide Usage on Water Quality," and other abstracts.

Examines the difference of human productivity in relation to geographical situation by researchers from the U.S. Awareness of the way in which the output of agriculture or industry per person varies from region to region; Investigation on the reasons behind such variations; Compilation on the best available statistics and analysis of their relationships.

The article presents the authors view regarding the adoption of items in studies of diffusion processes. According to the author, analysis was done in 1959, based upon data collected in a panel study of farmers in a northeastern Mississippi county. "First use" was obtained in 1954, retrospectively. The panel design provided farmers' reports of their practices in 1955, 1956, and 1957. "Adoption" was considered to be "using" the practice in any two or three of the crop years covered by the panel. The article presents some graphs that shows the relation between "first use" and "adoption" in farm practices. Seven curves are drawn with respect to the main diagonal to avoid confusion, four additional curves are drawn with respect to the dashed diagonal. The x-axis represents relative time of "first use." The cumulative frequencies are smoothed by using three-year moving averages. The 'Y' axis is the cumulative frequency for "adoption" also smoothed. All of the curves would have revealed a negative shift had the diffusion process become completed.