IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/erevae/v1y1973i4p447-460..html
   My bibliography  Save this article

New farm classification in the Federal Republic of Germany

Author

Listed:
  • NORBERT DESELAERS

Abstract

The new farm classification in the Federal Republic of Germany is based on the structure of the potential gross margin. The gross margin of the individual lines of production was determined by deducting the variable costs from the variable output. The potential gross margin per farm is calculated by multiplying the crop areas (excluding forage growing) and the numbers of livestock by the average, standardized gross margin per unit and by adding up the results. The composition of this potential gross margin according to lines of production determines the assignment of farms to the various farm systems. In addition to classification according to economic orientation of the farms, it was decided to have a grouping according to income capacity. The measure of income capacity is the level of the so-called potential farm income. The potential farm income is calculated by deducting from the potential gross margin of a farm the fixed special costs and the overhead costs, having regard to the particular farm category. The socio-economic classification of the farms required for considerations of economic and agricultural policy can be deduced from the grouping according to the level of potential farm income.

Suggested Citation

  • Norbert Deselaers, 1973. "New farm classification in the Federal Republic of Germany," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 1(4), pages 447-460.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:erevae:v:1:y:1973:i:4:p:447-460.
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1093/erae/1.4.447
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. J. Brossier & M. Petit, 1977. "Pour une typologie des exploitations agri­coles fondée sur les projets et les situations des agriculteurs," Économie rurale, Programme National Persée, vol. 122(1), pages 31-40.
    2. Brossier, J., 1977. "Development Of Agriculture And Farm Typology A New Analytical Conception Of The Economy," 1977 Occasional Paper Series No. 1 190971, International Association of Agricultural Economists.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:erevae:v:1:y:1973:i:4:p:447-460.. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/eaaeeea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.