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Excerpt from Highest Return Farming Systems for Drummer-Flanagan Soils: An Application of Linear Programming to Farm Planning One-man and one-boy labor supply. At low levels of labor utiliza tion, the farming systems yielding highest labor income per hour worked are cash-grain systems (figure Since the percent of total labor available that is actually used is so small, these results are the same as those with low rate of use with a one - man labor supply (figure Labor use beyond 9 months requires introduction of cattle fed on pasture in order to maximize labor income per hour spent working. Hogs are necessary to attain this Objective when labor use goes beyond months. Size of farm reaches a maximum (358 acres) at this level of labor use. Corn is sold as grain in all systems. The quantity reaches a maximum of about bushels when labor use is 9 months. With complete labor use months), nearly all corn produced is fed to livestock (only bushels are sold). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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