Average characteristics of sugar beet farms, 2000

Note: numbers will vary considerably for European farms as many countries discourage similar professionalism and merging of farms compared to the Americans. There are considerably smaller and less profitable farms in EU countries as far as I know.

Item	All ARMS farms (Euro)
Farm finances (euro/farm)
Farm production value	399 524
Sugar beet production value	153 127
Net farm income	63 829
Assets	1 302 772
Debt	327 300
Farm equity	975 471
Debt-to-asset ratio (percent)
Income solvency group (% of farms)
Favourable (percent of farms)
Marginal income
Marginal solvency
Vulnerable
Co-op share (%of farms)
Operator occupation (%)
Farming as major occupation
Operator age (%)
Less than 50 years
50-64 years
65 years or older
Operator education (%)
High school or less
Some college
Completed college

Sugar beet production costs and returns, 2000 (Euro)

Item	All ARMS farms
Gross return	Euro per planted hectare
Sugar beets total gross return
Operating costs
Seed
Fertiliser
Chemicals
Custom operations
Fuel, lube, and electricity
Repairs
Purchased irrigation water	10,6
Freight and dirt hauling	26,4
Miscellaneous	30,2
Hauling allowance (-)	14,3
Interest on operating capital	19,6
Hired labour
Total operating costs
Return over total operating costs
Ownership and other costs
Capital recovery (machinery & equipment)
Taxes and insurance	29,5
General farm overhead
Opportunity cost of land
Opportunity cost of unpaid labour
Opportunity cost of coop share	41,5
Total (economic) costs
Return over total (economic) costs	-44,5
	Tons per planted hectare
Yield	55,3
Cost of production	Euro per ton
Total operating costs	13,87
Total operating and ownership costs	19,2
Total (economic) costs	28,17
Season-average price	25,89

* = 0.1 to less than 5 percent.

Source: 2000 USDA Agricultural Resource Management Survey

http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/sb974-8/sb974-8.pdf

Distribution of sugar beet farms by farm typology group, 2000

Small <250 000 USD (low sales) 13%

Small <250 000 USD (high sales) 27%

Small family farms, those with annual sales of $250,000 and under, accounted for 40 percent of all sugar beet farms but contributed only 16 percent of the total sugar beet production.

Large >250 000: 31%

Very Large >250 000: large: 22%

Large family farms (annual sales more than $250,000) accounted for 53 percent of all sugar beet farms and just over three-fourths of the sugar beet production.

Others 7%

Enterprise size is an acreage measure which in this report is one of five categories: farms with fewer than 50 sugar beet acres, 50-149 sugar beet acres, 150-249 sugar beet acres, 250-499 sugar beet acres, and 500 or more sugar beet acres.

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