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Էջ 43 - LL Sammet, and RG Bressler. 1956. Economic Efficiency in Plant Operations With Special Reference to the Marketing of California Pears . Calif.
Էջ 4 - ... about 715 tons of peaches (fig. 3). Beyond that size, slight reductions in harvesting costs and machinery investment per acre were realized, but these were offset by increases in costs of hired supervision (foremen). Therefore, average total cost with prevailing practices was essentially constant beyond 60 acres. When mechanized practices were used, average cost declined up to a farm size of between 90 and 110 acres--basically a one-man operation. Mechanized methods gave lower costs than present...
Էջ 22 - ... farms was reduced considerably. Under this assumption, the 1-man farms were nearly as efficient as 2-man farms. In a study of vegetable farms in the Imperial Valley of California, farms of less than 640 acres were found to be nearly as efficient as larger sizes. Among fieldcrop farms in this area, economies of size were found to occur up to about 1, 500 to 2, 000 acres. Custom hiring was found to be very advantageous to smaller farms in this area. Three other California studies reviewed gave...
Էջ 41 - Comparative Economies of Different Types of Cottonseed Oil Mills and Their Effects on Oil Supplies, Prices, and Returns to Growers.
Էջ 55 - ECONOMIES OF SIZE IN FARMING Theory, Analytical Procedures, and a Review of Selected Studies By J. Patrick Madden, Agricultural Economist Farm Production Economics Division INTRODUCTION Since World War II, the number of farms in the United States has decreased substantially. Those remaining are getting larger, more specialized, and more highly capitalized. This is largely the result of a shift from small, self-sufficient farms to highly commercial farms. The direction and speed of these trends raise...
Էջ 20 - Timberland is forest land which is producing or is capable of producing crops of industrial wood and not withdrawn from timber utilization by statute or administrative regulation.
Էջ 62 - Adequate family farm" is defined as a farm business with sufficient "resources and productivity to yield enough farm income to meet expenses for (a) family living; (b) farm expenses, including depreciation, maintenance of the livestock herd, equipment, land and buildings, and interest on borrowed capital; (c) enough capital growth for new farm investments required to keep in step with technological advance and rising levels of living.
Էջ 47 - Hedges. 1963. Economics of On-Farm Irrigation Water Availability and Costs and Related Farm Adjustments. 2. Farm Size in Relation to Resource Use, Earnings, and Adjustments on the San Joaquin Valley Easts id e . Calif.
Էջ 42 - ... Sta., Giannini Found. Res. Rpt. 260, Dec. (79) MacFarlane, David L. 1950. Notes on the Scale of the Firm: Its Meaning, Measurement, and Usefulness in Research. Univ. Chicago, Soc. Sci. Res. Council Proj. in Agr. Econ., Econ. Efficiency Ser. Paper No. 11. (80) Madden, J. Patrick, and Bob Davis. 1965. Economies of Size on Irrigated Cotton Farms of the Texas High Plains.