Show I Farm Records Help HeIp Farmers To Plan A cU vi ties In order to wisely select the crops to be grown own and the live live- livestock livestock stock to be produced and to k keep p costs consistent with market prices price the farmer need needs information about the various operations ac according ac according cording to agricultural economist of the Utah State Agricultural I college This information must be b accurate specific and often orten detail detail- detailed detailed detailed ed in nature Herein lies the value of farm accounts They arc are a means of securing this valuable knowledge By keeping farm accounts the farmer may assemble and analyze specific information about the per I performance of the factors of pro pro- pro production on his own farm Valuable information will ill be obtained about his land machinery equipment livestock li current expenses and his own labor and management Such information is indispensable to the most efficient operation of a farm In case a large number of farm farm- farmers farmers farmers ers keep comparable farm account records as is being Ing done by some farmers in Utah each day compare his results with those I from a group of similar farms The weak and strong points in his I own organization and management can then be easily determined which enables him to arrange and conduct his own far farm on a profit profit- profitable able basis Farm account records become increasingly valuable as the num- num num I ber bel number of or years ears for which the record is kept increases the economists I point out Although the farm ac- ac accounting ac accounting countin counting project of or the extension service has been in pro pro- progress ress but two years many valuable I results have already been obtained Most farmers who who- who have kept ree- ree records rec records during the past two years are I continuing and many more are eager to start In 1931 and 1932 records show that some farmers have made a profit in spite of adverse condi condi- conditions Even where profits have not notI noten been en realized losses have often I been greatly curtailed Many farm farmers ers era are successfully meeting too the ever changing economic conditions I by resolutely facing the facts which their farm records place at I their disposal Farm accounts will willI I lend valuable aid in the solution of I many farm fann problems obtained A farm account book may mar be ob- ob ob tamed from the county extension a agent extension ent or by writing to the exten exten- exten- exten sion service of the Utah State Agricultural college at Logan I |