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THE
f*RM-A6R»US«HESS
HOOKUP
When an agribusiness firm
decides to hook up with
farming, it’s not likely to
latch on to just any farm
enterprise.
A recent study by the
USDA’s Economic Research
Service of 410 firms with
both farm and nonfarm
operations found some
common bonds in the types
of agriculture these firms
went into.
There was quite a spread
m the firms’ annual sales,
ranging from $1 million a
year to over $5OO million. A
few had gross sales in the
billions
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Most, however, seemed to
be attranted to farm en
terprises that require a lot of
labor and management
savvy. The commodities
they produced also shared
certain traits--they are
highly perishable and
subject to wide variations in
quality.
Basing their analysis on
data provided by Dun and
Bradstreet, the researchers
identified 10 major types of
farming among the 410
firms. Four commodities
stood out from the rest.
Most commonly produced
were beef cattle-27 percent
of the firms produced this
commodity—followed by
vegetables at 18 percent,
poultry other than broilers,
18 percent, and fruits, 17
percent.
Researchers also
classified the firms by
primary business or in
dustrial activity: 'farms,
suppliers of agricultural
inputs, agricultural
processors, agricultural
distributors, and
nonagncultural activities.
Big on farming. Over a
third of the firms (149) gave
farming as their main
business. Of these, 18 per-
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rant were mainly frait
producers, the same
proportion were primarily
vegetable producers, and 17
percent were mainly beef
cattle producers.
Supplying agricultural
inputs was the chief activity
of 52 firms, nearly half of
them being feed manufac
turers. Feed manufacturers,
together with poultry hat
cheries and distributors of
farm equipment and sup
plies, accounted for over 95
percent of all the input firms.
Agricultural processors,
numbering 57, largely dealt
in dairy products and fruit
and vegetables. With meat
packers, these firms made
up over two-thirds of all
processors.
Sixty-four of the firms
were agricultural
distributors. Wholesalers of
fruit and vegetables,
poultry, and other farm
products accounted for over
four-fifths.
Fums primarily engaged
in non-agricultural
businesses counted 88, 40
percent of which were in
land-based industries such
as mineral extraction,
forestry, and real estate
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development. Next were
trade and service firms (31
percent), manufacturing
firms (28 percent), and
nonglomerates (20 percent).
Taking a closer look at the
firms which made farming
their main business, the
most commonly produced
commodities were
vegetables, beef cattle, and
fruit and tree nuts.
Farm suppliers. Firms
specializing In farm inputs
went heavily into poultry
production (other than
broilers), with broilers a
distant second. A significant
number of the non-broiler
poultry operations, however,
were breeder flocks for
broiler hatching eggs.
The agricultural
processors were big on
dairy, beef cattle, fruits,
vegetables, and poultry
other than broilers. Eccept
for dairy, the agricultural
distribution firms also
concentrated on these
commodities.
In the nonagncultural
category, beef cattle headed
the list, followed by fruits
and grains.
Nonfann types. As was
true for the 410 firms as a
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group, thooe -whose main
business was not fanning
mostly produced fruits and
vegetables, poultry other
than broilers, and beef
cattle. Most of the cattle
were produced in feedlots. a
smaller but significant
number of these firms were
involved in broiler and dairy
production.
The nonfarm agribusiness
firms, the EBS study said,
perfer intensive types of
agriculture becase they
readily lend themselves to
the industrial production
techniques already used by
these firms. And since less
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