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Effect of Farm Size and Level of Vertical Integration on Returns to Management in the Commercial Turfgrass Industry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Billy V. Lessley  and
Ivar Strand
Billy V. Lessley
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland
Ivar Strand
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland
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An important and viable agricultural crop which should receive more attention is turfgrass. This is particularly true in the Northeast where high population concentrations create a large demand for home and business beautification. The Northeast's average population density of three-hundred persons per square mile makes a crop with few offensive characterisitcs, maximum open-space amenities and high value per acre worthy of consideration by farmers, politicians and economists (U.S. Bureau of the Census).

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , October 1979 , pp. 201 - 210
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station Scientific Article Number A2612, Contribution Number 5651.

References

Arnold, F.T. and Lessley, Billy V. The Commercial Turfgrass Industry in Maryland: Structure, Costs and Returns. Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 488, May 1972.Google Scholar
U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Statistical Abstract of the U.S.: 1977, (98th Edition). Washington, 1977.Google Scholar