Cost-Size Relationships of North Dakota Ranches
| dc.creator.author | Leistritz, F. Larry | |
| dc.creator.author | Schneeberger, Walter | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-06-23T16:41:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-06-23T16:41:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1973 | |
| dc.description | The article addresses the relationship between cost versus ranch size. Ranchers observed that the costs of resources used in their ranch businesses were increasing at a faster rate than the prices they received for their product which was beef cattle. This phenomenon, was termed the "cost-price squeeze". This reduces the margin between receipts and costs per animal sold. Several researchers have studied the ranch cost-size relationships using ranch survey data, which may be obscured by differences in management ability, range condition and related factors among ranchers surveyed. A study, using linear programming, was employed to determine was conducted to help determine the production costs for ranches of varying sizes in south-western North Dakota. the results are presented. Costs per unit of gross income decrease sharply as ranch size increases from a one-man operation to a two or three-man ranch, but cost benefit is slight when four-man. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10365/9790 | |
| dc.publisher | North Dakota State University | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Farm Research; 30:4; Mar/Apr 1973 | |
| dc.rights | North Dakota State University | en_US |
| dc.source | North Dakota Farm Research: Vol. 30, No. 04, pp. 28-31 | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Ranching | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Farm management | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Economics | en_US |
| dc.title | Cost-Size Relationships of North Dakota Ranches | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |