IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/ifma02/7024.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Small Farmers Combining to Stay Profitable and Compete with Large Scale Agriculture

Author

Listed:
  • Costin, Rick

Abstract

Small and intermediate full time farmers in Kentucky are finding it difficult to remain profitable and continue in business. Agriculture trends continue toward larger scale operations. These trends have been driven by economies of scale when purchasing inputs, reduced profit margins on per unit basis and the need of providing a large quantity for marketing advantages. Small farm operations are searching for ways to compete and still maintain some form of independence. This paper will focus on the need for small and intermediate size farmers to work together to take advantage of the benefits achieved by large operators while still maintaining independence. One group and industry, in particular, will be highlighted. I will discuss the hog industry and illustrate how a group of small and intermediate size farmers worked together to successfully compete in today’s difficult agriculture environment.

Suggested Citation

  • Costin, Rick, 2002. "Small Farmers Combining to Stay Profitable and Compete with Large Scale Agriculture," 13th Congress, Wageningen, The Netherlands, July 7-12, 2002 7024, International Farm Management Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:ifma02:7024
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.7024
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/7024/files/cp02co01.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.7024?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:ifma02:7024. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ifmaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.