 Trends and Relationships Between Viability and Sustainability Performance Indicators for Both Dairy and Sheep and Beef Cattle FarmsN.M. Shadbolt and K.M. Rawlings No 346596, 12th Congress, Durban, South Africa, July 18-24, 1999 from International Farm Management Association Abstract: Financial indicators of sustainability, developed using a combination of value based management and environmental accounting techniques, are applied to both time scries data and case study farms to identify any underlying trends of concern that might indicate that the long term survival, or sustainability, of the farms is at risk. Using time scries data from both sheep and beef cattle farms and dairy farms this study explored the relationships that exist over time between a number of performance measures with a view to determining some of the key drivers of both viability and sustainability, for farm businesses. Because of the volatility of financial results the average change in values over a period of greater than three years was used as the basis from which to identify trends. The three drivers suggested as having the most influence on farmer decision making long-term are operating profit, capital gain and the cost of capital (debt and equity). Keywords: Environmental Economics and Policy; Livestock Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:ifma99:346596 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in 12th Congress, Durban, South Africa, July 18-24, 1999 from International Farm Management Association Contact information at EDIRC. |
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