This article gives some results of production function studies carried out on small groups of farms. The results indicate that such studies can produce useful suggestions for farm reorganisation even when only 20 farms constitute the sample. Since service centres are being set up in Australia to...

Though theoretically desirable, production functions are difficult both to obtain and to use. Farm standards have generally been the main vehicle for giving farm management advice, despite their defects. This article puts an argument for standards but concludes that more effort can be made to...