The Potential for Enterprise Diversification and Resource Adjustment in the Wimmera Region of Victoria

The study concerns an important specialized wheatgrowing area of Western Victoria, located approximately 200 miles northwest of Melbourne. Linear programming was used to examine the effect of changes in enterprise mix and resource combination on farm income. The adoption of uncommon enterprises, and increases in the land/labour and wheat quota/land ratios were found to improve returns on the typical farm.

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Year of publication:	1972
Authors:	Hunt, Colin
Published in:	Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society - AARES. - Vol. 40.1972, 02
Publisher:	Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society - AARES
Subject:	Farm Management

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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