Financial Standards Measures
(Farms Sorted By Farm Type)

Avg. Of Crop and Crop and Crop and
All Farms Crop Dairy Hog Beef Dairy Hog Beef Other
Number of farms 2504 1142 462 98 68 134 127 96 371
Liquidity
Current ratio 1.62 1.55 1.49 2.14 1.43 1.79 1.89 1.55 1.56
Working capital 125,387 131,079 49,197 489,624 76,843 102,054 242,978 124,548 84,799
Solvency (market)
Farm debt to asset ratio 47 % 49 % 48 % 47 % 50 % 43 % 46 % 47 % 45 %
Farm equity to asset ratio 53 % 51 % 52 % 53 % 50 % 57 % 54 % 53 % 55 %
Farm debt to equity ratio 90 % 95 % 91 % 89 % 100 % 75 % 85 % 90 % 82 %
Profitability (cost)
Rate of return on farm assets 9.3 % 10.8 % 5.7 % 13.4 % 2.9 % 6.5 % 11.7 % 7.6 % 8.0 %
Rate of return on farm equity 12.2 % 15.0 % 5.1 % 19.4 % 0.5 % 6.8 % 16.2 % 8.6 % 9.8 %
Operating profit margin 20.2 % 20.8 % 13.5 % 26.3 % 12.8 % 16.6 % 26.0 % 19.9 % 21.6 %
Net farm income 96,432 107,862 63,668 257,028 22,178 70,143 159,002 69,925 68,797
Repayment Capacity
Term debt coverage ratio 185 % 215 % 111 % 263 % 137 % 151 % 245 % 195 % 159 %
Capital replacement margin 51,926 65,637 7,769 162,134 11,585 27,466 110,187 43,649 34,413
Efficiency
Asset turnover rate (cost) 46.0 % 51.7 % 42.2 % 50.8 % 22.9 % 39.5 % 44.9 % 38.3 % 37.3 %
Operating expense ratio 71.9 % 67.7 % 76.5 % 81.4 % 81.7 % 71.4 % 70.0 % 73.5 % 67.8 %
Depreciation expense ratio 4.8 % 4.8 % 4.8 % 2.8 % 5.3 % 5.4 % 5.1 % 4.9 % 6.7 %
Interest expense ratio 5.7 % 6.2 % 5.9 % 2.8 % 6.0 % 6.2 % 4.9 % 6.5 % 7.3 %
Net farm income ratio 17.7 % 21.3 % 12.8 % 13.1 % 7.0 % 16.9 % 20.0 % 15.1 % 18.3 %

A minimum of 10 farms required per column. Some columns were omitted.

Copyright (c) 2005-2007, University of Minnesota
Data Source(s): Minnesota Farm Business Management Education, 2318 farms
Southwest Minnesota Farm Business Management Association, 109 farms
North Dakota Farm and Ranch Business Management - Red River Valley, 39 farms
Southeast Minnesota Farm Business Management Association, 38 farms

_______________________________________________________________________________

Report Summary

1. Report number 88079
2. Location
    State: Minnesota
3. Farm Characteristics
    Year(s): 2006

View as text