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Optimum Farm Field Machinery Systems with Application to Farm Planning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Lennie G. Kizer  and
Donald R. Daum
Lennie G. Kizer
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University
Donald R. Daum
Affiliation:
Cooperative Extension Service, The Pennsylvania State University
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Field machinery is an integral part of a farm that produces crops and has to be taken into consideration in farm planning. This machinery presents the farm manager or analyst with problems that differ from other working or fixed farm resources. The reason is that field machinery consists of a set of machines which is an interdependent system, particularly in terms of size, performance and cost factors related to capacity. Maintaining control over the problems of matching machines for size or power and properly timing each field operation by crop or rotation is a difficult and time consuming task with current methods.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , October 1973 , pp. 64 - 73
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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