Incidence of Financial Viability and Stress and Proposed Financial Assitance Alternatives for U.S. and Oklahoma Press

This study attempts to provide more thorough understanding of farm financial stress and viability in Oklahoma and the United States. The major objectivive is to analyze distribuitions of Oklahoma and U.S. farm operators with various financial characteristics and project the impact of various financial assistance programs on their financial viability. Data from the 1986 Farm Finance Survey conducted by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the Oklahoma State University Agricultural Economics Department and the 1985 Farm Costs and Returns Survey (FCRS) data collected by the USDA was used to complete this analysisAgricultural Economic