Our 31,000 Largest Farms.

Autor/in	Nikolitch, Radoje
Institution	Economic Research Service (USDA), Washington, DC. Farm Production Economics Research Div.
Titel	Our 31,000 Largest Farms.
Quelle	(1970), (70 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Agricultural Personnel; Agricultural Production; Background; Farm Labor; Farm Management; Farmers; Organization Size (Groups); Resources; Rural Development; Rural Economics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Agriculture; Production; Landwirtschaft; Produktion; Agrarproduktion; Landwirtschaftliche Produktion; Hintergrundinformation; Farmer; Agriculturist; Landwirt; Landwirtin; Organization size; Unternehmensgröße; Betriebsmittel; Hilfsmittel; Rural environment; Development; Ländliches Milieu; Entwicklung
Abstract	Between 1959 and 1964, the number of farms with annual product sales of over $100,000 rose from 19,979 to 31,401, increasing this group's share of the market from 16 to 24 percent. During the same period, the 408 farms reaching the $1 million mark with a 4 percent share of the market increased to 919 farms with 7 percent of the market. This report analyzes the characteristics of these increasingly important large-scale farms. The data indicate that the operators of the larger farms differ from other operators in educational background, but not in age. The typical large-scale farm is a meat-producing farm located in the West. The report notes that technical efficiency is greater on the large farm, but the ratio of purchased inputs per unit of output is much lower for the small farm. (BH)
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01