Monitoring Sustainable Agriculture with Conventional Financial Data

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Try our online calculator! To help you calculate the indicators for evaluating a farm's sustainability (reliance on government programs; use of equipment, chemicals and non-renewable energy; creation of jobs; and balance between feed use and feed production), we've created a calculator you can use online. The Financial Indicators For Sustainable Agriculture worksheets can found on pages 9-10 in the booklet. [Please note: You must use a Javascript-enabled browser for the calculator to work.]

Support for putting "Monitoring Sustainable Agriculture with Conventional Financial Data" and the accompanying online calculator on the web was provided by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, under Cooperative Agreement number 99-COOP-1-7686 through a grant to the Michigan Agricultural Stewardship Association (MASA). MASA's website is www.sustainable-ag.org

Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the viewpoint of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Dick Levins is a Professor and Extension Agricultural Economist at the University of Minnesota.

Copies of Monitoring Sustainable Agriculture with Conventional Financial Data are available for $7.00 from Land Stewardship Project, 2200 Fourth Street, White Bear Lake, MN 55110. Phone: (651) 653-0618 or E-mail: lspwbl@landstewardshipproject.org