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Commodity Payments, Farm Business Survival, and Farm Size Growth
Key, Nigel D.; Roberts, Michael J. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2007
with higher rates of farm survival and growth. … farm’s current or historical production, but whether payments have contributed to farm growth is uncertain. This study uses … commodity program payments per acre are associated with subsequent farm growth. Also, higher payments per acre are associated …
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Agricultural Trade Liberalisation and Economic Growth in Developing Countries: Analysis of Distributional Consequences
Ali, Ershad; Talukder, Dayal - In: eJADE: electronic Journal of Agricultural and … 11 (2010) 2
The article analyses the impact of agricultural trade liberalisation on economic growth as well as on the welfare of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009642568
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Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Farm Size and Performance
Hadrich, Joleen C.; Olson, Frayne E. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
Replaced with revised version of poster 08/03/10.
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Internet Access and Internet Purchasing Patterns of Farm Households
Mishra, Ashok K.; Williams, Robert P.; Detre, Joshua D. - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 38 (2009) 2
The Internet is becoming an increasingly important management tool in production agriculture. Using data from the 2004 Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) and a double-hurdle estimation approach, we explore the adoption of computers with Internet access by and Internet purchasing...
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OFF-FARM INCOME, TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION, AND FARM ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
Fernandez-Cornejo, Jorge; Mishra, Ashok K.; Nehring, … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2007
The economic well-being of most U.S. farm households depends on income from both onfarm and off-farm activities. Consequently, for many farm households, economic decisions (including technology adoption and other production decisions) are likely to be shaped by the allocation of managerial time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038747
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Diversifikation und Wachstum landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen
Weiss, Christoph R.; Thiele, Holger D. - In: German Journal of Agricultural Economics 51 (2002) 3
between different diversification strategies and farm performance (farm growth rates). The results of fixed– and random … products increases growth rates whereas the opposite applies for diversification into unrelated products. Initial farm size has … a significant and negative impact on the rate of growth which implies ß-convergence of farm sizes. …
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Dairy Quota and Farm Structural Change: A Case Study on the Netherlands
Jongeneel, Roelof A.; Tonini, Axel - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
This paper sets out to analyse the impact of milk quotas had on the dairy farm structure of the Netherlands. In addition projections on the likely farm structure under different milk quota scenarios are explored. Moreover mobility indicators characterizing structural change are developed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005321078
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Effects of Changes to Farm Program Payment Policies on the Distribution of Payments and Income Inequality of Farm Households
Durst, Ron L.; El-Osta, Hisham S. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
In recent years, increasing attention has focused on the distribution of government payments, especially the share of payments that go to large farms and high-income farm households. Farm commodity program payment limits were first introduced in the Agricultural Act of 1970. The Farm Security...
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Variable Input Allocation: Why Heterogeneity Matters?
Letort, Elodie; Carpentier, Alain - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
The allocation of variable inputs among crops is a common problem in applied studies that use farm accountancy data. Standard farm accounting information is typically restricted to aggregate or whole-farm input expenditures; there are usually no details on how these expenditures are split among...
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Can Crop Insurance Premiums Be Reliably Estimated?
Ramirez, Octavio A.; Carpio, Carlos E.; Rejesus, Roderick M. - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 40 (2011) 1
This paper develops and applies a methodology to assess the accuracy of historical loss-cost rating procedures, similar to those used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency (RMA), versus alternative parametric premium estimation methods. It finds that the accuracy...
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