Firm Growth Models often Neglect Important Cash Withdrawals

Abstract

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Farmer Decision‐Making with Conflicting Goals: A Recursive Strategic Programming Analysis

“…The models provided a realistic measure of growth potential in that they explicitly took account of withdrawals from the business often neglected in other farm models, for example, the costs of fixed asset replacement, income tax and family consumption. Brake (1968) and Vandeputte and Baker (1970) have noted the importance of including such withdrawals in farm growth models.…”

Farm survival under uncertainty

“…Second, the consumption function upon which expenditures for family living requirements are based was changed to that identified by Brake (1968 The typical Class 4 cash grain farm modeled in this study is a unit of 438 acres with the asset structure shown in Table 3.1. The Class 4 cash grain farm was chosen as the subject of this analysis because larger cash-grain farms in Iowa are highly specialized usually producing only two crops, corn and soybeans, on an asset base of which land is the major component.…”

An economic evaluation of alternative financial strategies used by beginning farmers to enter agriculture

“…20. The debt-to-equity ratio in this set of initial conditions was constrained to be less than 2.0, but this constraint was reached only once.…”