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A Production Function for Florida Foliage Nurseries From Time-Series and Cross-Section Data*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Dan L. Gunter  and
Robert D. Emerson
Dan L. Gunter
Affiliation:
Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Robert D. Emerson
Affiliation:
Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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The foliage industry is the most rapidly expanding segment of commercial agriculture in Florida [1]. The industry accounted for about $13 million of the agricultural income in 1966 and over $187 million in 1975. The area in production in the state has more than doubled in the last ten years; it was increased from about 26 million square feet in 1966 to just over 65 million square feet in 1975. Nurserymen were expected to expand their production area by about 8.6 million square feet during 1976 [14].

This rapid increase in production area has been from expansion of established producers and entry of new growers into the industry. The producers increased from 163 in 1966 to 262 in 1975. The average foliage nurseryman participating in the Florida Cooperative Extension nursery business analysis program expanded employment from 23 employees in 1970 to 30 in 1975.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , July 1977 , pp. 151 - 156
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1977

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Florida Agricultural Experiment Station Journal Series No. 582

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