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Modeling Farm Income versus Farm Household Income

Biomass Rules Posted on December 27, 2024 by Mark JennerDecember 27, 2024

Over the last few decades, financing the family farm has shifted.  Farm policies and farm management begin with the idea of a farm as the central business unit of a farm household.  This is an excellent place to begin.  But … Continue reading →

Posted in definition, economics, farm, policy, wealth creation | Tagged Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS), Economic Research Service (ERS), farm household income, farm income versus farm household income, farm typology, farming-occupation, gross cash farm income (GCFI), large, low-sales, midsize, moderate-sales, National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), new farm household planning model, non-family, off-farm-occupation, retirement, risk management tool, traditional farm finance model, USDA, very large | Leave a reply

Characterizing US Farms by State with Median and Average Values

Biomass Rules Posted on December 19, 2024 by Mark JennerDecember 19, 2024

US farms are very diverse but are easy to group into a common label.  The 1.9 million farms counted by USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) for 2023, are all authentically US farms.  The average number of farms per state … Continue reading →

Posted in definition, economics, farm, policy | Tagged 2023, acres per farm by state, average, by state, characterizing US farms, characterizing US farms by state with median and average values, Economic Research Service (ERS), farm income, farm number per state, median, National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), uneven distribution, USDA | Leave a reply

Hidden Benefits of Declining Hog Pastures

Biomass Rules Posted on November 12, 2024 by Mark JennerDecember 30, 2024

The United States is losing farmland but productivity and output continue to increase.  Last week, the loss of 11 million acres of pastureland to cropland was explored.  That blog also examined the over emphasized claims on cattle as an environmental … Continue reading →

Posted in economics, farm, firm, policy | Tagged declining hog pastures, Dust Bowl, Farm Services Agency (FSA), hidden benefits, hidden benefits of declining hog pastures, hogs per acre, increased animal welfare, increased density, increased hog production, indoor hogs, Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), reduced emissions, reduced erosion, USDA | Leave a reply

Tracking Pastureland Use Change in USDA, Natural Resource Inventory

Biomass Rules Posted on November 4, 2024 by Mark JennerNovember 4, 2024

Land use change has gotten complicated.  Tracking changes in climate have added more than simply physical changes in land use.  The first step in understanding the more sophisticated land use change implications is to understand what land is changing.  The … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, definition, policy, science | Tagged 25 GWP, 300 GWP, ambient carbon, annual cropland, cattle methane emissions, domestic cattle emissions, global cattle emissions, land use change, Natural Resource Inventory (NRI), nitrous oxide, perennial pasture, sensitive soils, tracking pastureland use change, tracking pastureland use change in USDA Natural Resource Inventory, USDA | Leave a reply

Off-Farm Income as a Farm Household Business Risk Management Tool

Biomass Rules Posted on October 30, 2024 by Mark JennerOctober 30, 2024

Farm management focuses on business decision making for the business unit of the farm.  But access to external cash-flows from off-farm income takes some pressure off the total dependence on the success of the farm business unit. Farm Enterprise Analysis … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, economics, science | Tagged 2022, 60 percent off-farm days, bottom 20 percent, Census of Agriculture, enterprise efficiency, farm enterprises, farm household business, farm income, farm number, farm size, off-farm, off-farm enterprises, off-farm income, off-farm income as a farm household business risk management tool, on-farm, risk management tool, top 20 percent, USDA, variability, whole business efficiency | Leave a reply

Magical Conversion of Text to Dates – What The Function

Biomass Rules Posted on October 14, 2024 by Mark JennerOctober 14, 2024

Biomass Rules Blog students who were working ahead on last week’s crude oil and corn price comparison likely hit an impasse when downloading the monthly corn price data from USDA.  The USDA, National Ag Statistics Service (NASS), Quick Stats monthly … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, science, What the Function | Tagged coding, combining cell contents, CONCAT(), concatenation, Conversion, date formats, DATEVALUE(), magical conversion of text to dates what the function, MS Excel, National Ag Statistics Service (NASS), Quick Stats, text strings, text to dates, USDA, what the function | Leave a reply

Corn is More than Food – Real Adventures in Economics

Biomass Rules Posted on October 9, 2024 by Mark JennerOctober 9, 2024

Number 2 Yellow Corn plays many roles these days.  Among them both ‘sustainable savior,’ as well as, ‘destroyer of humanity and the planet.’  That is a pretty broad range.  Back in the good old days, 20 years ago, corn was … Continue reading →

Posted in economics, policy, Real Adventures in Economics, science | Tagged 20-years ago, adventures in economics, causal, complement, corn, corn is more than food - real adventures in economics, correlation, crude oil, daily prices, Energy Information Administration (EIA), ethanol, feed, gasoline, interdependence, monthly prices, more than food, MTBE, NASS, olden days, price indices, quantities, Quick Stats, substitute, transportation fuel, USDA | Leave a reply

Mining the 2022, Census of Agriculture – What the Function

Biomass Rules Posted on September 5, 2024 by Mark JennerSeptember 5, 2024

The first federal census of agriculture was conducted in 1840.  It has been conducted for 184 years.  The oldest hardcopy of the US Census of Agriculture in the Biomass Rules collection is from 1982.  We have been reading and analyzing … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, economics, science, What the Function | Tagged 2022 Census of Agriculture, categories, data mining, Excel, IF(), IFNA(), ISBLANK(), LEN, mining the 2022 Census of Agriculture - what the function, nested functions, numeric values, RIGHT(), text string, TEXTBEFORE(), TRIM(), USDA, what the function | Leave a reply

The Seminal Role of Commodities in Food Value

Biomass Rules Posted on September 3, 2024 by Mark JennerSeptember 3, 2024

Paying $3 for a drive-thru coffee is a rational choice when the alternative is no coffee at all.  It is also reasonable to pay $4 for a box of corn cereal.  If one, 12-ounce box of cereal provides 8 bowls … Continue reading →

Posted in definition, economics, policy | Tagged affordable, cereal, commodities, corn grain, disposable income, distributor, Economic Research Service (ERS), food, food dollar, food value, inputs, processor, rational, retailer, seminal role, seminal role of commodities in food value, supply chain, USDA | Leave a reply

Making Sense of Retail Food Through Coffee

Biomass Rules Posted on August 26, 2024 by Mark JennerJanuary 3, 2025

Food is as old as dirt.  However, in 2024 the word ‘food’ is poorly understood.  Pandemics, supply-chain challenges, trade wars, real wars; have all contributed to growing concern about access to food.  Clarifying and aligning definitions of food will take … Continue reading →

Posted in definition, economics, policy | Tagged coffee markets, comfort food premium, Economic Research Service, ERS, farm bill solution, food products, food quality premium, food service, food wastes, food-at-home, food-away-from-home, groceries, imported food costs, making sense of retail food through coffee, price premium for service, restaurants, retail food, USDA | Leave a reply

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