Methodical bases of family farm modernization

Described were IBMER (Institute for Buildings Mechanization and Electrification of Agriculture (IBMER)) activities aimed at the development and verification of research procedures used for the assessment of commercial family farm activities and for evaluation of progress in their technological and ecological modernization. Current assessment of agricultural farm activities has been conducted using an appropriate IBMER procedure [Wójcicki 2008], which comprises tables for parametric (numerical) description of commercial farm equipment and activities in 2008.Development family farm is modernized on the basis of the project of its organization and mechanization in the nearest 5-7 years (e.g. until 2015). Such project may be developed using new IBMER technological and balance sheet procedure (methods), which has been currently (2009) elaborated and verified. A comparison of the recent activities with the accepted organizational project allows to determine the level of progress in the sphere of technical and ecological modernization of the analysed farm and its infrastructure. Both research procedures contain a number of common methodical bases, the part of which was synthetically compiled in tables concerning the assessment of modernization of a sample farm with farm area 40 ha AL, specializing in potato, milk and beef cattle production.