Farmers' Use of Marketing and Production Contracts

Contracts are an integral part of the production and marketing of selected livestock commodities, such as broilers, turkeys, eggs, and milk. Such crops as fruit, vegetables, and sugar beets and cane are mostly produced under contracts. In the past, farm receipts were assumed to be distributed across all farm families in proportion to their production. Today, contractors receive a large share of farm receipts, formerly assumed to go to the operator's family. Contractors typically bear a large share of production and price risk, and earn the majority of net income from the commodity's production. Farmers may benefit by being able to expand their operations more rapidly than otherwise possible--perhaps with less debt and fewer financial risks

Tradable quotas Setting limits to carbon emissions

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Facing up to the reality of low output

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Economic indicators of the farm sector.

Title from cover.Issue for 1981 not published.Beginning with 1982, issues also identified by v. and no., e.g., ECIFS2-1- .Mode of access: Internet.Vols. for 1982- prepared by: Farm Sector Analysis Section, Economic Indicators and Statistics Branch, National Economics Division, Economic Research Service; 1984- by: National Economics Division, Economic Research Service; by: Agriculture and Rural Economy Division, Economic Research Service