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... Inflation , decisions in other countries , tax regula- tions , nonfarm employment opportunities , new technologies , sup- port of farm prices , and availability of credit are involved . U.S. farming has undergone dramatic changes in the ...
... Inflation , decisions in other countries , tax regula- tions , nonfarm employment opportunities , new technologies , sup- port of farm prices , and availability of credit are involved . U.S. farming has undergone dramatic changes in the ...
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... Inflation . • Increases in farm product exports . • Availability of capital - intensive new technologies . • Nonfarm employment opportunities . • Availability of institutional credit for the purchase of land and capital goods ...
... Inflation . • Increases in farm product exports . • Availability of capital - intensive new technologies . • Nonfarm employment opportunities . • Availability of institutional credit for the purchase of land and capital goods ...
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... inflation combined with increased availability of credit is significantly different than if either of these forces ... Inflation , energy prices , and changes in tax rules have changed the prospective character and degree of influence of ...
... inflation combined with increased availability of credit is significantly different than if either of these forces ... Inflation , energy prices , and changes in tax rules have changed the prospective character and degree of influence of ...
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... inflation have been important forces stimulating changes in recent years . These same forces are expected to continue to influence the hog industry in the future and likely will lead to continuation of trends , unless strong ...
... inflation have been important forces stimulating changes in recent years . These same forces are expected to continue to influence the hog industry in the future and likely will lead to continuation of trends , unless strong ...
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... inflation have had impacts , albeit somewhat differently in each of the regions . Other forces have been important in different regions . Forces important in the Northeast are : ( 1 ) limited amounts of highly productive land and a ...
... inflation have had impacts , albeit somewhat differently in each of the regions . Other forces have been important in different regions . Forces important in the Northeast are : ( 1 ) limited amounts of highly productive land and a ...
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accounted acreage acres annual Appalachia areas average beef cows broilers California capital gains cash cattle feeding cattle raising changes commodity programs Cooperatives Service Corn Belt corporations cotton crop production cropland custom feeding dairy farms decline decrease Delta Department of Agriculture dollars dryland farming effects expansion factors farm income farm numbers farm operators farm production farmers farmland feed grains feeder pig feedlots FIGURE growers growth harvested hog enterprises hog production hundredweight important increases in farm indicated industry inflation inputs investment irrigated labor larger farms less livestock major milk Net operating income nonfarm North Central region Northeast Northwest number of farms occurred off-farm organization output ownership percent Plains potato poultry and egg production costs proportion receipts relative SALES CLASS San Joaquin Valley shift South Southeast Southwest soybeans structure subregion substantial supply tion trend turkeys U.S. Department U.S. farming United wheat
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Page 14 - As defined since the 1978 census, a farm is "any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were sold or normally would have been sold during the census year.
Page 34 - This (increase) (decrease) includes unrealized appreciation or depreciation in the value of plan assets; that is, the difference between the value of the plan's assets at the end of the year and the value of the assets at the beginning of the year or the cost of assets acquired during the year. The plan had total income of...
Page 74 - Krause, Kenneth R., and Leonard R. Kyle, Midwestern Corn Farms: Economic Status and the Potential for Large and Family-Sized Units, Agricultural Economic Report 216, Economic Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, November 1971. (12) Kyle, Leonard R., WB Sundquist, and Harold D. Guither, "Who Controls Agriculture Now? The Trends Underway," Who Will Control US Agriculture"!
Page 74 - Midwestern Corn Farms: Economic Status and the Potential for Large and Family-Sized Units"--in fact, the two publications are complementary. Moreover, no other research report has come along to take the place of AER-107, which is still the standard reference on the subject. We continually refer the public to it. The report is in great demand. It's for these reasons that AER-107 "Economies...
Page 40 - Who Owns the Land? A Preliminary Report of a US Landownership Survey," ESCS 70 and related data, Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service, September 1979.
Page 364 - ... this region, California farm product values overshadow those from the other States. But structural characteristics are fairly consistent across all States in the region. Present Structure Southwest farms are nearly double the size of average US farms. However, Southwest financial assets per farm are more than three times the average for the United States as a whole. At the same time, the debt load of Southwest farmers exceeds the load in the rest of the Nation by 2l/2 times. The debt-equity ratio...
Page 302 - The scientific industrialization of the US food and fiber sector: Background for market policy.
Page 129 - Under 25 years 25-34 years 35-44 years 45-54 years 55-64 years 65 years and over.
Page 42 - Non-farm employment opportunities, availability of institutional credit for the purchase of land and capital goods, commodity programs for supporting farm product prices, livestock production, beef, dairy, poultry and eggs, pork, etcetera.
Page 188 - The Egg Subsector of US Agriculture: A Review of Organization and Performance, Purdue Agricultural Experiment Station, NC Project 117, Monograph 6, June 1978, 84 pages.