Farmer Profitablity
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Users Manual for the Produce Profitability Calculator
[PDF], Guide to an on-line calculator that
allows crop-by-crop comparisons to determine the
profitability of various food crops; developed
by the Hotel, Restaurant and Institution
Management Extension program at Iowa State
University, January 2008.
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Presentation, Investing for Triple Bottom Line Returns: Business Practices that Support Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development, by John Berdes, ShoreBank Enterprise Pacific; and Dennis West, Northern Initiatives, Marquette, Michigan; June 1-2, 2006
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Executive summary from Alternative Swine Cost of Production Project, 2003 Progress Report [PDF]
- Grow Your
Small Market
Farm™
These
seminars
are designed for
small-market
farmers.
Seminars begin
each January
with activities
scheduled
throughout the
year.
2008 program
brochure
[PDF]
Latest issue
[PDF]
of the program's newsletter
(August 2008)
focuses on
energy
conservation.
- Food Facts:
Results from
Marketing and
Food Systems
Research
This web page
has key research
findings from
projects
supported by the
Leopold Center's
Marketing and
Food Systems
Initiative and
the Regional
Food Systems
Working Group.
Also available
as a colorful
print report,
April 2009
- Enterprise
budgets
ISU
Extension farm
management field
specialist Craig
Chase used a
Leopold Center
grant to develop
worksheets to
help small
producers better
estimate their
costs of
production. They
are available in
the publication,
Iowa Vegetable
Production
Budgets
[PDF]. February
2006
- Tunnels to
Tables View the progress on this research project studying the use of high
tunnels to
extend the
season for
high-value fruits
and vegetables.
The work was
funded by a
grant
from the Leopold
Center Marketing
and Food Systems
Initiative.