Size of Farm Business


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Starting & Running Your Own Small Farm Business


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Running your own small farm is demanding enough, but making it profitable presents a host of further challenges. In this business-savvy guide to farming on a small scale, Sarah Aubrey covers everything from financial plans and advertising budgets to web design and food service wholesalers. Learn how to isolate your target audience and craft artisanal products that will delight and amaze customers. With a solid business strategy in place, you can confidently turn your passion into a productive and profitable venture.







Farm Size and the Organization of U.S. Crop Farming


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Cropland has been shifting to larger farms. The shifts have been large, centered on a doubling of farm size over 20-25 years, and they have been ubiquitous across States and commodities. But the shifts have also been complex, with land and production shifting primarily from mid-size commercial farming operations to larger farms, while the count of very small farms increases. Larger crop farms still realize better financial returns, on average, and they are able to make more intensive use of their labor and capital resources, indicating that the trends are likely to continue. The report relies on comprehensive farm-level data to detail changes in farm size and other attributes of farm structure, and to evaluate the key driving forces, including technologies, farm organization and business relationships, land attributes, and government policies.







Commodity Payments, Farm Business Survival, and Farm Size Growth


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In the last 25 years, U.S. crop farms have steadily declined in number and grown in average size, as production has shifted to larger operations. Larger farms tend to receive more commodity program payments because most payments are tied to a farm's current or historical production, but whether payments have contributed to farm growth is uncertain. This study uses farm-level data from the census of agriculture to determine whether there is a statistical relationship between farm commodity program payments and greater concentration in production. The analysis indicates that, at the regional level, higher commodity program payments per acre are associated with subsequent farm growth. Also, higher payments per acre are associated with higher rates of farm survival and growth.




Farm Management - With Information on the Business, Marketing and Economics of Running a Farm


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As an entrepreneur, the farmer combines labour and capital in the hope of profits, but always with the risk of losses. This book contains a comprehensive guide on making profits and avoiding losses in a farming enterprise, with information on the business, marketing, and economics required for the running of a successful farm. Written in clear, concise language and full of invaluable information for the prospective or existing farmer, this text constitutes a must-read for those interested, and is not to be missed by collectors of antiquarian literature of this ilk. The chapters of this book include: 'Farm Labour Income Defined', 'Size of Business as Affecting Receipts and Profits', 'Size of Business Related to Labour Income', 'Size of Business Related to Labour Income on Poultry Farms', 'Relation of Total Receipts Per Farm', 'Other Factors to Labour', 'Income on Fruit and Vegetable Farms', etcetera. We are proudly republishing this book now complete with a new introduction on farming.







Relationship Between Size of Farm Business and Labor Income on Utah Farms


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Since the turn of the century there has been a trend within the State of Utah toward more and smaller farms. The original farm units taken up by the early settlers of this state have been divided and subdivided until Utah today has hundreds of uneconomical-sized farms too small to be operated profitably under their present organization. To make room for the new agricultural generation, the old homesteads have been divided among the sons of the families until a farm that was once supporting one family is now unsatisfactorily contributing to the support of several families. This condition has resulted in serious economic and social problems.