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Production and Farm Management

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Browsing Production and Farm Management by Author "Seitzinger, Ann, author"

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    Demographics, production characteristics and financial performance executive summary: a comparison of low-sales, medium-sales, and large family farm operations in the United States
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2011-12) Pritchett, James, author; Johnson, Kamina, author; Seitzinger, Ann, author; Thilmany, Dawn, author; Pendell, Dustin, author; Colorado State University, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, publisher
    The financial performance, resilience and long run sustainability of small and mid-sized farms and ranches are an important concern for agriculture's stakeholders and policy makers. A determined effort to uncover the ingredients of small operations' successes initiated this analysis of data from the 2008 Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS)3 that is conducted by USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). This document is an executive summary of the findings from the three fact sheets, and it will detail the methods used to categorize operations from the 2008 ARMS data. Broad themes are summarized from results and opportunities for future research noted.
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    Operator and operation characteristics: a comparison of low-sales, medium-sales, and large family farm operations in the United States
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2011-12) Johnson, Kamina, author; Seitzinger, Ann, author; Thilmany, Dawn, author; Pendell, Dustin, author; Pritchett, James, author; Colorado State University, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, publisher
    The paper analyzes operator and operation characteristics for the smaller and mid-sized farms such as regional influences, age, and educational backgrounds of the operators and their spouses according to their return on assets (ROA). These farms were categorized by size based on gross sales and ranked in quartiles according to the ROA.
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    Production resources and management: a comparison of low-sales, medium-sales, and large family operations in the United States
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2011-12) Pendell, Dustin, author; Johnson, Kamina, author; Pritchett, James, author; Thilmany, Dawn, author; Seitzinger, Ann, author; Colorado State University, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, publisher
    Farm sustainability, resilience and performance are closely tied to the effectiveness with which managers use their assets and costs. This fact sheet investigates the cost and asset efficiency of agriculture operations that are categorized according to their sales and ranked by their rate of return on assets. The size of the operations, input purchases and labor productivity are particular areas of emphasis.
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    Profitability measures and financial structure: a comparison of low-sales, medium-sales, and large family operations in the United States
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2011-12) Thilmany, Dawn, author; Pendell, Dustin, author; Johnson, Kamina, author; Seitzinger, Ann, author; Pritchett, James, author; Colorado State University, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, publisher
    Analysts use financial ratios to evaluate the performance and sustainability of businesses including farms and ranches. In this fact sheet we evaluate the performance of farms and ranches ranked according to their return on assets (ROA). The operations are divided into classes by sales volume, so that high, average and low financial performance is compared both within and across sales classes. These comparisons provide insights into the nature and cause of variation in performance across operations.