The tables in this publication contain estimates of farm machinery operations function costs for 1998. The estimates use an economic engineering approach.

The tables in this publication contain estimates of farm machinery operations function costs for 1997. The estimates use an economic engineering approach. The data represents an average farming industry cost for specified machines and operations.

The tables in this publication contain estimates of farm machinery operation costs for 1999. The estimates use an economic engineering approach. The data represent a representative farming industry cost for specified machines and operations.

The tables in this publication estimate farm machinery operations function costs for 1996. The estimates use an economic engineering approach. The data represents an average farming industry cost for specified machines and operations.

The objective of this study is to compare commodity payments under current Federal farm policy with the previous Senate and Administration proposals and the recently released “2008 Farm Bill Conference: House Agriculture Committee-Developed Concept for a Farm Bill Spending Framework.”...

North Central Farm Machinery Task Force is a group of extension economists who evaluated alternative methods for estimating farm machinery costs and made recommendations for the development of extension materials. This paper describes the procedures agreed upon, and explains the rationale for...

These papers describe the current economic conditions and outline some of the opportunities facing Minnesota farmers as they complete 1998 and develop plans for 1999. The first paper, Prospects For Farm Income in 1998, describes the variation in net farm income farmers in the Southeastern and...

The North Central Farm Machinery Task Force is a group of extension economists who evaluated alternative methods for estimating farm machinery costs and made recommendations for the development of extension materials. This paper describes the procedures agreed upon, and explains the rationale...

With the current federal farm bill set to expire at the end of September this year, many proposals have been made to redesign the next bill. The objectives of this study are to compare the current policy with major proposed alternatives and estimate the potential payments of farmers under each...