September/October 1990 Art Lange, Honey Crisp Farms, was a speaker at a recent Rare Fruit Symposium at UC Davis. Art discussed his experiences selling fruit at farmers' markets. Most of his l7 acre farm in Reedley, California is planted with peaches, plums, and nectarines.
November/December 1993 An annual "mushrooms" report from USDA's Agricultural Statistics Board on mushroom production shows that total production for 1992-93 was up four percent to 781 million pounds.
Commercial farming involves many risks - production risks and market risks - all of which put the operation itself at risk. There have been many episodes of farm failures in U.S.
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by Desmond Jolly, Small Farm Program director Organic agriculture, as practiced in the late 1960s and 1970s, could have been regarded as part of a fugitive subculture of urban refugees and others who chose to go back to the land.
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by Desmond Jolly, agricultural economist, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis Clover Stornetta Farms in Sonoma County, California, has taken a different approach to dairy production and marketing.
Table 2. COSTS AND RETURNS TO PRODUCE EGGPLANT Coachella Valley - 1996 Labor Rate: $7.04/hr. machine labor $7.04/hr. non-machine labor Interest Rate: 11.61% COSTS AND RETURNS TO PRODUCE EGGPLANT Quantity/Acre Unit Price or Cost/Unit Value or Cost/Acre Your Cost GROSS RETURNS Eggplant 1300 Box 7.
