Historically research about diffusion has largely been focused on rates of adoption and explanations for them. This is a matter of secondary importance, arguably, to the question of the likely total level of adoption. In the case of agricultural innovations total adoption can be expected to be...

Farm management skills can affect farm managers' performance. In this article, farm management performance is analyzed based on yearly Illinois Farm Business Farm Management (FBFM) panel data across 6,760 farms from 1996 through 2011. Two out-of-sample measures of skill are used to analyze the...

La producción agropecuaria está muy expuesta a los posibles efectos negativos de una serie de factores que presentan un muy alto grado de variabilidad. Factores climáticos, biológicos, institucionales, humanos y de mercados, afectan rendimientos y precios de productos e insumos. Estos...

This article is describing selected aspects of franchising and its implementation in the agricultural activity of farmers. A research showed that farmers belied in the possibility of success in agriculture, even though they do not know the specific form of cooperation such as franchising. The...

The recent trend of development policy makes emphasis on gender disparity in performance, especially in the agricultural sector whereby women partake and play a crucial role and their contribution to the sector cannot be overemphasized. However, the contention is whether such disparity in...

Farm operators and spouses have increasingly engaged in off-farm work in recent years. Many studies have analyzed the role of government payments; however, little is known about the impact of health insurance coverage. This study builds on previous literature by using copulas to test for...