Costs, Returns and Capital requirements for Soil-Conserving Farming on Rented Farms in Western Iowa, March 1955

(1955) Costs, Returns and Capital requirements for Soil-Conserving Farming on Rented Farms in Western Iowa, March 1955. Iowa State University

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Abstract

this study are based on alternative complete budgets for each of 40 farms. These budgets estimate the physical production, capital requirements, costs; gross and net incomes for each farm in the sample under five different farming systems (one soil-exploitive and four soil-conserving, one of which is cash-crop and the other three include different livestock programs). The 40 farms were a subsample representative from a larger sample of 140 farms. The analysis shows: (a) The tenant's net income is in creased by adjusting to soil conservation fanning, irrespective of the leasing system. (b) The tenant's net income from a soil-conserving farming system including a dairy-hog program was larger under a crop share-cash lease than under a livestock-share lease.