Interpretation of the Report Below is a link to an example report from the Production Line Transitions service. The report presents a cross-tabulation of farm numbers by production line for two consecutive years. The table is also available at the more detailed production branch level. The farms' production lines in the base year, the first year, are shown in the columns of the table, and the numbers of farms by production line are summed on the bottom row. The total number of farms is shown in the cell at the bottom left corner of the table. The farms' production lines in the following year are shown in the rows, and the numbers of farms by production line are summed in the rightmost column. The total number of farms for the year is shown in the cell at the bottom right corner of the table. Farm decisions are examined at the end of each accounting year, when the outcome for each farm is known. Thus, for example, farms that were operating in the initial situation of accounting year 2017 but subsequently decided to discontinue production will have ceased operations during 2018. These farms are no longer classified into any production line in the review carried out at the end of accounting year 2018. For this reason, the row showing the number of farms that discontinued production is titled "Discontinued in 2018", and the total number of discontinued farms is shown in the leftmost cell of that row. Except for this cell and the total number of farms in the first year shown on the bottom row, the first column of the table serves solely as a control column, and the other figures in that column do not represent any meaningful values.
