| Business Costs Agriculture. |
| Click on the blue button for a summary of information at the site |
| Websites linked to from this page hopefully will provide useful cost information related to agriculture. |
| A Management Accounting Information Center article “Cost-Related Information Relevant to Management Accounting on the Internet” attempts to help those involved in cost management, accounting, and decision-making use the Internet for needed information. Please click the home logo at the top left of this page to access this article. |
| A Management Accounting Information Center article “An Evaluation of Using Cost Rate Terms for Finding Cost Data on the Internet” suggests a search strategy for finding cost information on the Internet. Please click the home logo at the top left of this page to access this article. |
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| A Management Accounting Information Center article “Finding Cost Data on the Internet (2008)” identifies ways in which the Internet can be a source of cost data for businesses. Please click the home logo at the top left of this page to access this article. |
| A Yahoo Pipes Search Product Agriculture This Yahoo Pipes Search Product is designed to use several strings of search terms related to agriculture. Added to each string are the keywords you enter. The strings are used simultaneously in the search and then the results are fed into the pipe and filtered. Hopefully, this Yahoo Pipes Search Product identifies useful information that would have taken several hours to find by manually searching using Yahoo Search. Click here to go this Yahoo Pipes product. Right clicking should lead to being able to open in a new window. |
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| The graph to the right was created using Google’s graph tool.
The line graph shows the total $ cost (variable and fixed) per acre, per year, to grow wheat, from 2000 to 2010. The cost data is an average cost across the United States. The cost data was obtained from a US Department of Agriculture website. You can gain access to this data by clicking here. Costs for each expense that make up the variable (e.g. chemicals, seeds, etc.) and fixed (e.g. land, etc.) are itemized. This Department of Agriculture website has similar cost data for other commodities, e.g. corn, soybeans, etc. Also, the website presents other economic data relevant to agriculture. The average cost to grow wheat on an acre increased approximately 5.9 % per year. |
| The graphs to the right are a World Bank – Google collaborative project.
Right click on “Explore data” to go to a Google site, where you can select over 150 countries to compare how the country’s value added from agriculture as a percentage of gross domestic product compares to the average world percentage and to other countries. Such data lead to insights related to agriculture costs in a country. Right click on “World Bank, World Development Indicators” to go to the World Bank website and to their world development indicators databases. The graph should be updated automatically as the World Bank updates their database. |