Considerations on the effect on productivity and performance of producers of grain on the application of the model of agricultural business and public policy

Abstract

The term agribusiness is associated with the installation of a new operating paradigm in grain production. It was stated that in the new paradigm a new innovative farmer will supplant the older and limited knowledge of the producers. From the analysis of economic trends in production costs, marketing costs , yields and gross production of wheat and soybeans between 1991 and the present margins is to make a contribution to quantitatively describe the evolution of investment and profitability in both crops and highlight the influence of public policies on profitability, aspects which allow us to reflect in particular on the reasons for the disappearance of thousands of farms in recent decades. Statistical analysis indicated and grade advancement practices of contratismo in grain production allow relativize and challenge statements noted that the new paradigm became explosively productivity and profitability in grain production , increased knowledge of producers and the inadequacy of this transformation caused the disappearance of thousands of farms in recent decades.