In an effort to facilitate communication between agricultural producers and their local officials, the Texas AgriLife Extension Services' risk-management specialists and county agricultural agents developed region-specific model farms through the FARM assistance program. Financial and Risk...

Individual farm financial data are collected in about two dozen states by colleges of agriculture, farm record associations and state vocational-technical school programs. A wide variety of methods are used by the various systems to calculate measures of profitability, making it difficult to...