SR-111: Economic Analysis of the University of Kentucky Community Supported Agriculture Organic Vegetable Production System

Ric Bessin, Carl Dillon, Tiffany Thompson, Mark Williams, Tim Woods | Jul. 12, 2017 (New)

Farms marketing through a vegetable CSA are complex businesses facing many operational and economic challenges. To be economically viable, CSA farms must achieve the appropriate match of crops, equipment, and labor with farm size and number of CSA members. A diverse array of vegetable crops are typically grown with unique requirements for crop production, pest management, harvest, and post-harvest handling. An extensive suite of skills, tools, and equipment are required to produce these crops efficiently, and mechanization becomes critical as the number of acres in production increases.