agency costs in separated ownership and control farm production. Using Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) data, structural equation modeling and stochastic frontier analysis, we found evidence that separated ownership and control farms had...

"Bulletin No. 34 of the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station, by Director H. J. Waters, deals with the subject of soil fertility, and the production, preservation and use of farm manures, of which the following is a brief summary."--Paragraph 1....

Energy conservation and efficiency in farm shops -- Low-cost energy-saving pratices -- Medium-cost energy-saving practices -- High-cost energy-efficient practices -- Additional information -- References...

Farm labor management involves hiring and keeping quality farm labor. This means farmers must compete with nonfarm employers for skilled workers. This guide provides farm and agribusiness owners with an overview of the following aspects of farm...

Farm labor management involves hiring and keeping quality farm labor. This means farmers must compete with nonfarm employers for skilled workers. This guide provides farm and agribusiness owners with an overview of the following aspects of farm...

"This publication outlines a five-phase process for transitioning farm management responsibilities: Phase 1. Successor seeks experience and education away from the farm. Phase 2. Successor works for a trial period on the farm Phase 3. Successor...

Energy efficiency and farm water systems -- Pump houses -- Livestock watering systems -- Solar water systems -- Water heaters -- Additional information -- References...

A farm resume is much like a resume for employment in that it highlights your qualifications to do a job. A farm resume can help tenants to be creative in selling their services. Young farmers, in particular, can benefit from developing a farm...

This presentation allows users to obtain an estimate of the cost (both time and money) of transporting and land applying manure to fields using a specified complement of equipment.

of agroecosystems and rewards for farmers who use sustainable practices. Understanding how shape, arrangement, and management of agroforestry landscape features affect different components of the farm system is important, as is recognizing tradeoffs. Understanding...

"The ads you'll find in this booklet are put out by the University of Missouri-Columbia Extension Division to promote the 'Good Farm Management Program' in Missouri counties. These ads are aimed at your audience and should be useful to build lineage...

This publication outlines a way for you to communicate your qualifications as a producer and a prospective tenant farmer by preparing a farm resume....

for the family and the farm to evolve towards more open communications building trust and allowing the family to address areas of potential conflict. Communication allows a family to gather additional information and to acknowledge differences in management...

and still provide more than 8 per cent return to capital and management for all three systems. Farms in the larger pasture system had the highest per cent return to capital and management averaging over 11 per cent per year. They were more efficient in both...