Management Strategies of Successful Brookings County Producers

This study was conducted during the summer of 1988 to gather information on the current management strategies being implemented on successful farms. The initial objective of the study was to examine farm level definitions of success including, but not limited to, family life, goal orientation and financial measures. Management strategies and their implementation processes was to be examined on a whole farm as well as individual enterprise basis. An objective of the study was to follow the decision making process of an individual producer through a complete season or cycle