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SUCCESSION IN FAMILY FARM BUSINESS: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE U.S. FARM SECTOR [PDF]
Survival of many family farms is dependent on successful intergenerational transfer. Given the importance of succession in the farm sector, the purpose of this paper is to examine factors that are likely to influence succession decisions on U.S.
El-Osta, Hisham S. +2 more
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Ban Glyphosate—Does It Affect the Swedish Farmers' Willingness to Grow Cover Crops?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cultivation of cover crops is one of the new Eco‐scheme practices introduced in Sweden. This study examines how the design of policy attributes of these schemes influences farmers' willingness to grow cover crops on arable land, with particular focus on the potential impact of a glyphosate ban.
Vivian Wei Huang +2 more
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Framework for assessing the farm relative sustainability: a Lithuanian case study
Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2016 The aim of the study was to develop an analytical tool to assess the relative sustainability of family farms using the FADN data. This tool was based on the set of 23 indicators that covered three main components of sustainability (economic ...
Vlada VITUNSKIENE, Vida DABKIENE
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross +2 more
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Revista de Economia e Sociologia RuralResumo: As novas ruralidades têm como uma das principais características a heterogeneidade socioeconômica e sociocultural construídas pela convivência entre agricultores e novos moradores dos espaços rurais.
Rafael Eduardo Chiodi +2 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou +3 more
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Analysis of competitiveness of apple production on Croatian family farms
Acta Economica et Turistica, 2021 The objective of this paper is to investigate the main characteristics of apple production competitiveness in ten Croatian family farms and their comparison with the most competitive regions for apple production. There are six factors in the analysis and
Dalija Kuvačić, Matej Ružić
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Factors Impacting Farm Growth [PDF]
This paper examined the relative importance of farm size, farm type, managerial ability, capital structure, operator age, family size, and off-farm income in explaining farm growth rates. Farm type, managerial ability, and operator age were significantly
Langemeier, Michael R., Villatora, Mario
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Swedish farmers' approval of nudges
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen +2 more
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Being different matters! A closer look into product differentiation in specialty coffee family farms in Central America [PDF]
, 2020 Allan Discua Cruz +2 more
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