Characteristics And Production Costs Of Us Corn Farms 1991

Author : United States Department of Agriculture
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781505398618
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (986 download)

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Download or read book Characteristics and Production Costs of U. S. Corn Farms, Including Organic written by United States Department of Agriculture and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data from the 2010 Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) and ERS cost of production accounts present a snapshot of the production costs, production practices, and characteristics related to U.S. corn production in 2010. This study found consider-able variation in the operating and ownership costs for corn, ranging from an average of $1.74 per bushel for low-cost producers to $3.88 per bushel for high-cost producers. In 2010, high corn prices meant that most producers covered their corn production costs from harvest-month prices. The Heartland continues to be the major corn produc-tion region with the lowest operating and ownership costs per bushel, mainly because of the region's high corn yields. The operating and ownership costs per bushel did not vary significantly by enterprise size where size is measured by the number of planted corn acres per farm. However, these costs per planted acre were lowest for farms with the smallest corn enterprises and highest for farms with the largest corn enterprises. Production value less operating and ownership costs per acre from organic corn produc-tion was higher than that from conventional corn production because higher prices more than offset lower yields for organic corn.