Table 1. Average field/farm characteristics for 2005 corn producers, by conservation program
participation and by farm-size class.
|
Field/Farm Characteristics |
_______Non-Participant farms_______ |
_________Participant farms_________ | ||
|
Retired/Residential/- |
Farming- |
RetiredZResidentialZ- |
Farming- | |
|
General Field/Farm Values Percent of farms (horizontal sum = 100) |
42.5 |
43.7 cd c |
4.2 в |
9.6 в |
|
Farm acres operated (ac.) |
163 BD |
1,019 AC |
298 bd |
1,263 AC |
|
Farm corn acres harvested (ac.) |
66 bd |
480 AC |
120 bd |
515 ac |
|
Percent of corn acres planted |
10.3 B |
72.6 ACD |
1.8 bd |
15.3 вс |
|
Acres owned to acres operated (ratio) |
.67 B |
.37 AC |
.92 bd |
.46 C |
|
Farm Financial Values Farm total value of production ($) |
72,336 B |
423,979 AC |
66,647 bd |
354,582 AC |
|
Ave. farm revenue share from corn (%) |
29.0 |
38.0 c |
50.0 |
41.0 C |
|
Total farm net worth [equity] ($) |
394,168 BD |
1,208,947 a |
856,921 bd |
1,515,128 A |
|
Ave. net farm income ($) |
15,401 BD |
161,853 AC |
16,410 bd |
88,070 AC |
|
Operator Characteristics Ave. operator age |
55 |
52 |
64 |
54 |
|
Percent corn farm operators with Percent corn farms with primary operator |
6.2 B 70.8 |
20.9 ad 17.4 |
X 36.6 |
13.6 в 8.6 |
|
Government Payments ($/farm) Direct government (AMTA) payments |
5,005 BD |
21,479 AC |
7,162 bd |
29,970 AC |
|
Counter-cyclical payments |
3,519 BD |
15,416 AC |
4,226 bd |
20,499 AC |
|
Conservation payments a |
4,858 |
3,207 |
2,428 |
6,299 |
|
Loan deficiency payments (LDP’s, etc.) |
8,545 bd |
25,565 AC |
7,983 bd |
27,613 AC |
|
Total government payments: |
15,314 BD |
58,541 AC |
20,523 bd |
71,752 AC |
|
Agri-Environmental Values Ave. harvested corn yield (bu./ac.) |
125 |
152 |
183 |
148 |
|
Ave. nitrogen applied per treatment acre (lbs./ac.) |
105.2 |
132.6 |
122.2 |
138.0 |
|
USLE soil loss (tons/ac./yr.) |
4.2 D |
3.5 cd |
4.8 в |
5.4 AB |
|
erosion in corn fields (column %) |
X |
9.4 |
X |
13.5 |
|
adjacent to a water body, intermittent |
16.3 |
27.8 D |
X |
44.1 в |
|
Percent of corn acres [with HEL Percent of corn acres [with wetlands |
2.6 bd |
1.6 AC |
7.9 bd |
14.0 AC |
|
in the corn field] (column %)__________________ |
_________0.0_____________ |
_____X |
________0.0_____________ |
______X |
Source: 2005 CEAP-ARMS Corn Survey (integrated Phase II & III data), Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
a/ Conservation payments here, for non-participants and participants, include government payments for all conservation activities,
including land retirement from such programs as the CRP and WRP, and for conservation activities for the entire farm that are not
included in our definition of participant (which is based on Phase II-based program participation information).
b/ X indicates that there were insufficient observations for these estimates.
c/ Letters A,B,C, and D indicate significant column difference tests based on pairwise two-tailed [Ho: β1=β2] delete-a-group Jackknife
t-statistics at a 90 percent confidence level or higher with 15 replicates and 28 degrees of freedom. A=column 1, B=column 2, etc.
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