Farm management handbook.

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Principles of Farm Management

State CESs generally produce COP information County agents receive cost of production informa- that deals with costs and returns for producing raw tion primarily from state extension services and then agricultural commodities. This information is disdisseminate it to agricultural producers. A survey tributed either directly to agricultural producers and gathered data on agent usage of this information. A other groups or indirectly to these groups through Poisson regression analysis using count data was county agents (Eck). Consequently, the county agent performed to determine the factors influencing the becomes an important distributional link for CES number of times county agents directly referred to COPinformation inmost states. Budgetinformation published cost of production (enterprise budget) can only be passed efficiently by county agents if information in a year. The agent's understanding of they understand its potential use as a management budget information use in management decisions, tool and the assumptions and, hence, the limitations the availability of budgets, and his/her receiving the imposed on the information. For instance, county budgets in multiple forms (e.g., sheets, booklets, or agents who understand how to use enterprise budgsoftware) had significant positive impacts on the use ets to compare costs and returns for specific producof budgets by the agent. tion or marketing alternatives can offer substantial support to producers attempting to maximize profit

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An evaluation of cost of production information usage by county agents

Economic Comparison of Selected Processing Alternatives for Alfalfa

A National Survey of Enterprise Budget Development And Use by the Extension Service

Douglas W. Eck

Papers

A National Survey of Enterprise Budget Development and Use by the Extension Service