Typical Farm Theory in Agricultural Research

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Journal of Sustainable Agriculture

Volume

II

Issue

2

Publication Date

1991

First Page

43

Last Page

58

Abstract

Sustainable agricultural research is very holistic in nature and is not easily analyzed in a single component fashion. Case farms or typical farms are frequently used to analyze alternative farming practices on an whole-farm basis. The history of typical farm theory 1s reviewed and the problems and limitations of using typical farms are presented. Issues regarding typical farm selection and classification, as well as, problems associated with aggregation of data and results are all discussed.

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