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Show Farm Business Analysis Helps Reviews Are Source of Valuable Valu-able Information for the Farmers. Prepared by the United Slates Department of Agriculture.) IJcuiiomic reviews by slate agricultural agricul-tural colleges and the L'niied States Department of Agriculture in which the farm situation and general supply and demand factors that affect agriculture agri-culture are analyzed are becoming an j Important new service fur farmers. The reviews are prepared by trained farm business analysis. They present facts and interpretations intended to guide producers In adjusting production produc-tion to marker demands. A survey just completed by a committee com-mittee of the outlook conference of the United Slates Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture shows that l.'j state agricultural colleges it addition to the federal De partment of Agriculture now are issuing, is-suing, monthly, or more frequently, publications which make economic information in-formation arailable to farmers' in more or less popular form. Several additional states are contemplating the Issuance of similar publications. Start of Service. The application of this type of service serv-ice which is freely used in the industrial in-dustrial world, by furnishing farmers with economic analyses of agricultural conditions, was started fliorliy after the termination of the war with the issuance by the Cnietd States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture of a publication called "The Agricultural Situation." The publication, a brief monthly summary sum-mary of economic conditions and prospects pros-pects all' P ling farmers, was in quick demand as presenting basic facts which could be used by farmers to make readjustments to changed economic eco-nomic conditions' in domestic and world markets. Demonstralion'of the need by farmers farm-ers for this type of information led to the establishment of similar service by the state agricultural colleges, until now more than one-third of the colleges col-leges are" issuing economic reviews dealing with farm conditions. The characteristic common to most of these publications is an effort to present pre-sent the basic factors which make up the current picture of production, movement, move-ment, consumption,' and price of farm products. Some states hold chiefly to the presentation of their own research re-search results; others interpret the current data of world-wide origin. Part of Broad Plan. The economic reviews are part of a broad program in which the United Slates Department of Agriculture and the state colleges are linked together, and which seeks to help the farmer to adjust his business a? profitably as possible to the requirements of the market. The educational aspects of these publications, says the committee, have been and should be strictly adhered ad-hered to. |
