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• Introduction
• Case studies
• Key findings  
  • Management of the conversion process
  • Crop agronomic and economic performance
  • Fertility management
  • Weed management
  • Pest and disease management
  • Whole farm economics
  • Conclusions
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Average total output, variable and fixed costs and net farm income on the reference farms

Comparison of net farm income with FBS and cluster data

Key Findings

Whole farm economics

• On all farms total variable costs and total fixed costs largely remained unchanged during and following conversion in comparison with their pre conversion levels. Regular labour numbers also remained unchanged, although management time increased. However, casual labour costs increased, on average by a factor of six, particularly on the larger initially arable farms.


• All farms experienced a decline in net farm income (by between
  

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