IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/uersab/309392.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Financial Performance of Specialized Wheat Farms

Author

Listed:
  • Ahearn, Mary
  • Dubman, Robert
  • Hanson, Gregory

Abstract

Specialized wheat farms—those with at least 50 percent of their production from wheat and with at least $40,000 in total production—fared worse in 1985 than other specialized crop farms. Specialized wheat farms had the lowest returns margin and return on assets of four grain specialties—wheat, corn, rice, and other small grains. Wheat farmers also relied more on off-farm income than other specialized grain farmers. The largest specialized wheat farms, those with production of $250,000 or more, had the best returns by all measures in 1985. Specialized wheat farms in the North Central and South Central regions were about equally strong in 1985. Those in the Northwest were the weakest because of their high cost structures and heavy debt burdens.

Suggested Citation

  • Ahearn, Mary & Dubman, Robert & Hanson, Gregory, 1987. "Financial Performance of Specialized Wheat Farms," Agricultural Information Bulletins 309392, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersab:309392
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.309392
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/309392/files/aib528.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.309392?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    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:ags:uersab:309392. 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: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ersgvus.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.