BACKGROUND. Farmers are faced with a wide range of pest management (PM) options which can be adopted in isolation or alongside complement or substitute strategies. This paper presents the results of a survey of UK cereal producers focusing on the character and diversity of PM strategies...

This paper starts the debate regarding the likely impact of post-accession public support in the New Member States on their farming sector’s efficiency. While one aim of farm support in the European Union (EU) is to promote efficient farms that can compete internationally, a higher level of...

According to neo-classical theory, farmoperators’ labour allocation is determined by therelative wage they can earn from their labour on and offthe farm. At the equilibrium, time should be allocated sothat the marginal returns from on- and off-farm workare equal. Thus, a move from coupled to...