America's Family Farms

Buch | Hardcover

179 Seiten

2010
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-60741-751-4 (ISBN)

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Farmers face many challenges like making daily decisions on when to plow, till, plant, fertilise, and harvest, or management decisions involving their sizeable assets, numerous employees, a multitude of rules and regulations and a market place that changes every day. This book explores America's family farms.

This book explores America's family farms today. Farmers face many challenges like making daily decisions on when to plow, till, plant, fertilise, and harvest, or management decisions involving their sizeable assets, numerous employees, a multitude of rules and regulations and a market place that changes every day. In addition to these challenges, competition from foreign markets, environmental concerns, low prices and many global factors also make the future uncertain. We are at a critical stage in planning for the future of agriculture; recruiting and training the next generation of farmers and ensuring farms will continue to be viable, healthy operations. Every family owned business has to deal with transitions, but it seems to be reaching crisis proportions in agriculture.

Preface; Aging Farmers Hearing- Bushue Testimony; Aging Farmers Hearing- Connor Testimony; Aging Farmers Hearing- Godwin Testimony; Aging Farmers Hearing- Kershaw Testimony; America's Diverse Family Farms (USDA); Economic Well-Being of Farm Households; Growing Farm Size and the Distribution of Farm Payments; Off-Farm Income, Technology Adoption, and Farm Economic Performance; Structure and Finances of U.S. Farms; U.S. Farm Income; Index.

Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	260 x 180 mm
Gewicht	482 g
Themenwelt	Veterinärmedizin
ISBN-10	1-60741-751-0 / 1607417510
ISBN-13	978-1-60741-751-4 / 9781607417514
Zustand	Neuware