Additional information was collected on CSA labor and crop production methods, especially weed, insect and disease control. We also collected a limited amount of information on characteristics of the farm operator and the type of CSA organization. A brief depiction of the average CSA operation is presented in Table 1. The average amount of cropland on these 26 farms was approximately 23 acres. Of that, about 11 acres were used for the CSA operation.
Respondents provide an indication of gross farm income through a categorical variable.
A number of different shares were produced by these CSA operations. Data were collected on six different types of shares, both non-working and working shares. Average number of each type of share and the share prices are presented in Table 1. In order to compare CSA output, we calculate the number of full share equivalents for each farm. To do this we assumed that share prices reflected the relative values of each type of share.