More conventional families have plans to purchase equipment than their sustainable counterparts. More sustainable families have plans to add livestock than do conventional families. Both sets of families plan to increase their farm sizes, but the conventional families will probably be expanding much faster by renting more land. More detailed information can be found in the paragraphs that follow. Equipment Purchases .
Farms upgrade their equipment on a regular basis.
Sustainable farm families, however, are believed to have a longer replacement cycle. This result is not statistically significant. Livestock Expansion . When asked if they had plans of adding more livestock or expanding their current livestock operations by adding more facilities, the conventional and sustainable families' responses agreed with expectations. Furthermore, this result is statistically significant at the 10 percent level.