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| Dohlman, Erik; Foreman, Linda F.; Da Pra, Michelle. |
| When longstanding marketing quota systems were eliminated (“bought out”) in 2002 for peanuts and 2004 for tobacco, producers lost quota-related price supports and other quota system protections, and were exposed more directly to a market-oriented system. The nature of the peanut and tobacco marketing quota programs, the structure and magnitude of the buyouts, and market dynamics influenced the ensuing structural changes that occurred at the farm, regional, and aggregate market levels. Analysis of USDA’s Agricultural Resource Management Surveys (ARMS) on peanut and tobacco producers over a multi-year timeframe provides insights on, and a basis for comparing and contrasting the buyout impacts along multiple dimensions. Notable developments include a... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Peanuts; Tobacco; Policy; Marketing quotas; Buyouts; Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56355 |
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| Foreman, Linda F.; Livezey, Janet S.. |
| The purpose of this study is to determine factors contributing to the likelihood of financial success among rice farms. The results showed that the ratio of government payments to total production value, tenure, crop diversification, cost control, education, yield, and debt-to-asset ratio were significant factors influencing at least one financial success measure. Key words: competitiveness, rice farms, farm success, farm profitability. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Competitiveness; Rice farms; Farm success; Farm profitability.; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/35215 |
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| Lambert, Dayton M.; Sullivan, Patrick; Claassen, Roger; Foreman, Linda F.. |
| In recent years, the Federal Government has increased its emphasis on conservation programs that reward good stewardship on working farmland. This report examines the business, operator, and household characteristics of farms that have adopted certain conservation-compatible practices, with and without financial assistance from government conservation programs. The analysis finds that characteristics of the farm operator and household, in addition to the characteristics of the farm business, are associated with both the likelihood that a farmer will adopt certain conservation-compatible practices and the degree to which the farmer participates in different types of conservation programs. For example, operators of small farm operations and operators not... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Conservation programs; Conservation-compatible management practices; Conservation structures; Farm households; Conservation Reserve Program; Environmental Quality Incentives Program; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7255 |
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| Dohlman, Erik; Foreman, Linda F.; Da Pra, Michelle. |
| Marketing quota and price support programs for peanuts and tobacco were a longstanding feature of U.S. farm policy, from the 1930s until the Government enacted quota buyouts, in 2002 for peanuts and 2004 for tobacco. Quota owners were compensated with temporary payments, but elimination of the quota programs exposed producers more to market risks and brought about structural changes at farm, regional, and marketwide levels. Since the buyouts, many peanut and tobacco farms have exited production. The farms that remain are mostly larger and have adopted new risk management strategies, such as contracting. Freed of the planting restrictions in the quota programs, production of peanuts, and to a lesser extent of tobacco, has been relocated to regions better... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Policy reform; Farm policy; Buyouts; Marketing quotas; Peanuts; Tobacco; Adjustment; Structural change; Agricultural and Food Policy; Industrial Organization; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Marketing. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56628 |
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| Foreman, Linda F.. |
| Corn production costs per bushel vary considerably among U.S. producers, depending on yields, farm location, tillage practices, irrigation, previous field usage, enterprise size, and weather. In 2001, the operating and ownership costs per bushel for corn ranged from an average of $1.08 for the 25 percent of U.S. producers with the lowest costs to an average of $2.98 for the 25 percent with the highest costs. Heartland corn producers had the lowest costs per bushel on average. Corn producers with small corn enterprises had the highest costs due to their lower-than-average corn yields. Operators of part-time and low-sales corn farms have higher production costs per bushel than operators of farms with higher sales. In 2001, 59 percent of corn producers earned... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Corn; Costs of production; Operator characteristics; Production practices; Cost variation; Agricultural Resource Management Survey; ARMS; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7205 |
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| Gale, H. Frederick, Jr.; Foreman, Linda F.; Capehart, Thomas C., Jr.. |
| Public health policies intended to reduce the incidence of smoking-related disease adversely affect thousands of tobacco farmers, manufacturers, and other businesses that produce, distribute, and sell tobacco products. This report assesses the likely impacts of declining tobacco demand, and identifies the types of workers, farms, businesses, and communities that are most vulnerable to loss of tobacco income and jobs. The dollar impact on the farm sector of a reduction in cigarette demand will be smaller than that experienced by manufacturing, wholesale, retail, and transportation businesses, but tobacco farms and their communities may have the most difficulty adjusting. Many tobacco farmers lack good alternatives to tobacco, and they have tobacco-specific... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/34007 |
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