The majority of farm households in OECD countries earn more off-farm income than farm income, even including government payments. While this is a well recognized fact its implications for risk management have not been well recognized. Current efforts to reform farm support have focused on the...

Agricultural data systems remain based upon now obsolete concepts. In particular, the "full-time, family farm" is still organizing concepts for much of the farm data system, and for agricultural policies. Yet farming has clearly bifurcated into: a relatively small number of large farms that...

This staff paper is an electronic version of a journal article, please cite as: Kuethe, T.H., B. Briggeman, N. Paulson, and A.L. Katchova (2014) “A Comparison of Data Collected through Farm Management Associations and the Agricultural Resource Management Survey.” Agricultural Finance Review...

This article establishes the cost-efficiency frontier and its variation over time for a sample of 610 farms in Kansas for ten consecutive years, from 1995 to 2004. The primary objective consists of examining how financially constrained firms affect cost efficiency and its components, allocative,...