Knowing Your Product Costs: A Primer for Farmers and Food Entrepreneurs

This publication provides a basic introduction to product costing for farm businesses and food processing enterprises. It describes cost concepts, provides product costing examples, and briefly discusses software tools that can assist with cost analysis. The publication is intended to help farmers...

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Main Authors: Kevin Athearn, Mark Yarick, Natasha Parks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries 2021-11-01
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Online Access:https://journals.flvc.org/edis/article/view/128279
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title Knowing Your Product Costs: A Primer for Farmers and Food Entrepreneurs
title_full Knowing Your Product Costs: A Primer for Farmers and Food Entrepreneurs
title_fullStr Knowing Your Product Costs: A Primer for Farmers and Food Entrepreneurs
title_full_unstemmed Knowing Your Product Costs: A Primer for Farmers and Food Entrepreneurs
title_short Knowing Your Product Costs: A Primer for Farmers and Food Entrepreneurs
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topic cost accounting
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food processing
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