We were asked by the Legislature to conduct "research into the effects feedlots have on the value of nearby property." To do so, we carried out a statistical examination of the interrelationships among residential property sales prices and nearby feedlots in a southwestern Minnesota study area....

Swine production networks are becoming a significant part of the Minnesota swine industry, with at least 30 production networks in operation as of late 1995. There are probably at least 450 producers involved, representing at least nine percent of the state s sow inventory. Not counted in these...

Written for presentation at the 2011 ASABE Annual International Meeting Sponsored by ASABE Gault House, Louisville, Kentucky August 7 – 10, 2011

Two cost and efficiency measures, crop expense per acre and feed and crop expense per hundredweight of milk, are compares on a cash and accrual basis. Records from 470 dairy farms were used for the comparison. Serious errors would be introduces by using the cash calculation on some farms.