This increase in cash costs contributed to a decrease in
average farm business profit for vegetable growers by 53 per cent since 2007 - 08.
Not exact matches
«We remain absolutely committed to delivering a member milk price at least in line with the DEFRA
farm gate
average and have put in place further
business development plans to achieve this.»
If dairy farmers
averaged out their financial performances the last eight years many of them would have made no money, says a dairy
farm business consultant.
Speaking to Onua
Business News on the
farms, one of the farmers who also double as an extension officer, Paa - Grant Arthur said that farmers invest an
average of GHC2000 to grow the tomatoes and can make five folds in profits within 3 months on a good crop season.
He noted he knew little to nothing of the
business but used simple calculations to figure out that the annual return on
average was around 10 % for the
farm and building.
«While American farmers often net less than $ 50 per acre for soy and corn, Canadian hemp farmers just across the border net an
average of $ 200 - 300 per acre,» explains Mike Fata co-founder of Manitoba Harvest, one of the first Canadian
businesses to benefit from hemp
farming in Canada, where it was re-legalized 10 years ago.