Individual Industrial Agriculture Farm
Major challenges and issues faced by individual industrial agriculture farms include:
- Integrated farming systems
- Crop sequencing
- Water use efficiency
- Nutrient audits
- Herbicide resistance
- Financial instruments (such as futures and options)
- Collecting and understanding own farm information
- Knowing products / markets / customers
- Satisfying customer needs
- Securing an acceptable profit margin
- Cost of servicing debt
- Ability to earn and access off-farm income
- Management of machinery and stewardship investments
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