Production cost savings tend to level off at medium-size farms, but many other factors influence expansion beyond that point.

Contributors include the following members of the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of California, Davis; Hoy F. Carman, Professor; Harold O. Carter, Professor; Ben C. French, Professor; B. Delworth Gardner, Professor; Warren E. Johnston, Professor; Rulon Pope, formerly Assistant Professor (now with Texas A & M University); Refugio I. Rochin, Associate Professor; and Stephen H. Sosnick, Professor. Carole Frank Nuckton, Research Associate, was the editor.