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.
2006 Outlook for a Small Farm Meat Goat Industry for California (731 KB) This 24-page research report examines the current state of the meat goat industry in the United States and California and factors affecting consumer demand for goat meat.
