When seasonal foreign farm workers with illegal resident status have left the country, farms experience difficulty in finding “motivated†equally efficient workers to fill in the void. This study’s survey and case study indicate that larger conventional farms usually opt for...

Farmers are expanding their use of the internet, including e-commerce. Larger, younger, and better educated farmers are leading the charge. This article identifies factors that influence how likely particular markets are to form on the internet and identifies example internet and identifies...

Farm financial performance measures are evaluated for producers across five age groups. The debt-to-asset ratio is highest for farmers in the lessthan- 30 age group, 45.5 percent, and decreases across age groups. Repayment capacity is strongest for farmers in the less-than-30 age group, 2.1:1,...

Farmers must earn revenues that both cover costs and provide adequate returns. The goal of this research was to understand how diversified farmers measure their cost of production and determine prices. We conducted in-depth interviews of diversified Vermont farmers and used the constant...

Succession planning is a component of a household’s risk management strategy for its farm business in as much as it is aimed at continuity of the business' management team. The family farm sector relies heavily on intergenerational succession. Succession and retirement are inter-linked...

The Farm Service Agency’s (FSA) Farm Business Plan was used to compare the characteristics of beginning farmers receiving direct Farm Ownership (FO) loans in fiscal 2005 by the type of delivery mechanism. Regular FO loans were commonly used by small and intermediate size family farming...