Estimates are made of possible effects in Indiana of a part-farm general cropland retirement program, operating with and without the type of commodity programs that existed until 1970. Conclusions are drawn from estimates for four major groups of crop and livestock farms in each of five areas of...

Farm numbers and average farm size in the United States have held about constant since the 1974 Census. but the proportion of mid-sized farms has decreased This pattern follows four decades of a strong trend toward fewer and larger farms Markov analysis IS a standard procedure for projecting...

A method for taking uncertainty into account when formulating aggregate agricultural policies is applied to the feed grain program. The impact of alternative feed grain programs on net farm income, Government payments, and feed grain production in the Southeastern Coastal Plains is shown. A...

Many good studies dealing with economics of conservation have been reported, but some essential questions remain unanswered. What effect does planning the farm to achieve conservation goals have on farm income? How much income could a farmer earn if he ignored conservation? How would income...

Size-of-farm data for 1964 were fitted to the function In Y =In a�bX Results showed that the percentage distribution of farms by size classes tends to follow the distribution of an inverse exponential function. Furthermore, empirical size distributions seem to have an underlying stability...

The following article endeavors to develop a technical but nevertheless relatively simple explanation of the revised price indexes of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. These ind xes are widely used not only for general purposes but also in the administrative calculation of parity prices...

Four strategies for farm growth are analyzed and compared on the basis of ownership, equity, and productive capacity achieved, and on the basis of resistance to adversity. The primary tool of analysis was a model utilizing a stochastic simulator interfaced with both ex ante and ex post linear...

A multicommodity, multiregional linear programming model is employed to obtain price differentials between 16 U.S. regions for corn, barley, grain sorghum, and oats. The price differentials are used to obtain loan support rates (for the 1974 crop) in each region, for each grain, so that relative...

As land represents more than half of the investment in agriculture in the United States, it follows that the nature of its ownership is related to the public interest. Our national supplies of food and fiber depend upon the output of the land. Title to it as he wishes. He may let it lie idle or...

The extent to which the tenure status of farm operators affects agricultural e ffciency has interested economists for decades. Different theories dealing with the subject have evolved; but only a few empirical studies have been made to test their validity. This deficiency in agricultural economics...