Analytic results indicate that producers having less elastic supply response capture more benefits per dollar expended than producers with more elastic supply response.
Cross, Timothy L. (author), Dobbins, Craig L. (author), Fuller, Earl I. (author), and King, Robert P. (author)
Format:
Guide
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 94 Document Number: C07180
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Minnesota, 1994. 38 p. (Station Bulletin 604-1994; North Central Regional Research Publication 337).
Levin, J.B. (author), Ortmann, G.F. (author), Woodburn, M.R. (author), and Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nata, Pietermaritzburg; Department of Statistics and Biometry, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
South Africa
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 100 Document Number: C08424
James F. Evans Collection, In a postal survey conducted among 199 commercial farmers in Natal during 1993, sources and costs of information were studied. Respondents indicated that the most important sources of information was own farm records/budgets. This source was ranked highest for production, marketing and financial decisions by respondents from all regions in the province. Respondents spent an average of R3 504 per year on information sources. Keeping own farm records and preparing budgets was the most time consuming activity while it had the second highest expenditure of all the information sources considered. The greatest expenditure was on tax preparers/accountants which contributed 44 percent to total information costs. Discriminant analyses showed that various sources of information were rated differently by farmers depending on region and farm size. (original)
AgComm Teaching, The responsibility for a successful computer system belongs to the management, and managers need enough knowledge to choose the best system. Long-range perspective is important so the computer can expand with the operation. Important words are explained in the categories of software, hardware, and methods of getting computer power. Software is the series of instructions telling a computer what to do. An individual set of instructions is called a program. There are systems software and applications software. Applications software can be custom software, packaged, or modified. The hardware is the machinery that runs the software. The central processing unit (CPU) is the brains of the computer. Results of computer programs are stored on plastic disks. Permanent copies can be made by using a printer. A farmer can get computer power with an outside service or an in-house service.
