OT: need mathematician

Karl Townsend · 2006-11-09T09:23:29+00:00

I need help computing the yield base for my apple orchard to report to the county F.S.A. office... This is normally done by averaging your reported yields for the last five years.They (this is part of the US government) have decreed that the yield base shall increase by 10% per year for apple trees from 2 to 12 years old and then remain constant. All trees under 2 shall have no yield base.OK, in math terms for trees in this age bracket. Y = mX + b Y is production year. X is actual production. The above paragraph had decided m = 1.1Now I need to solve for b using actual production data for the last five years. How?

Nov 09, 2006 23 Replies

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Glenn Ashmore 20 years ago

JEEZ!! You gotta be a lawyer to farm these days! First time I have seen that tome. I just fill out the form the packing plant gives me which is a lot simpler. Never had the nerve to file for uninsured crop damage on my little 4 acres of peaches.

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Jim Stewart 20 years ago

Holy s*it. It sounds just like the calculation for the research tax credit. The tax accountant doesn't know how to do it so my wife takes about

6 hours every year slogging through the numbers and saves us a few thousand dollars..

No, you can't borrow her. Not for apples or money (:

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Karl Townsend 20 years ago

I bet you can't get NAP for peaches in Georgia. If multi-peril insurance is offered by a private carrier for that crop in your area, FSA won't touch it.

Say, I'm driving through your area about Dec 19. Would you be interested in having a visitor for a couple hours? Breaks up that interstate tedium.

Karl

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