More than 50 percent of current farmers are over age 55, and the number of new farmers replacing them has fallen. This paper examines factors that contribute to the financial performance of new and beginning farmers in the U.S. A weighted regression analysis was used on data from the 2005...

The risk and return on capital markets is well documented in the academic literature. A well known model to examine the risk and return of capital markets is the capital asset pricing model. This model investigates risk as diversifiable risk and non-diversifiable risk. To apply this model to the...