CARI: Center for Applied Rural Innovation
Date of this Version
1998
Document Type
Article
Citation
Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
225 Keim Hall
Lincoln, NE 68583-0949
Abstract
Acknowledgments .i
Table of Contents ii
List of Tables .iv
List of Figures viii
Disclaimer ix
I. Introduction 1
II. Baseline Descriptions and Assumptions for the Five Farm Types .l5
III. Operational Descriptions of the Five Farm Types .l9
IV. Single-Year Economic Comparisons 27
V. Long-Term Economic Variability 42
VI. Energy Analysis and Comparison of Five Farming Systems 46
VII. Nutrient Budgets and Soil Erosion 53
VIII. Relative Susta.inability of Five Farming Systems 55
IX. Conclusions 63
Appendix 1. Deriving baseline descriptions 69
Appendix 2. Machinery tables 78
Appendix 3. Selected reference materials 93
Appendix 4. Economic analysis 97
4A. Conventional 108
4B. Modified conventional. 120
4C. Agroforestry 136
4D. Organic 162
4E. Beef 210
Appendix 5. Estimating income variability 224
Appendix 6. Energy budgets 241
Appendix 7. Erosion and nutrient budgets 283
Appendix 8. Sustainability 297
References 300
Comments
Copyright 1998 University of Nebraska-Lincoln.