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INDEPENDENT COMMERCIAL BANK MERGERS AND AGRICULTURAL LENDING CONCENTRATION

Ahrendsen, Bruce L.; Dixon, Bruce L.; Lee, Laderrek T. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 31 (1999) 02

In an era of rapid consolidation in banking, the effect of mergers on the availability of credit to agricultural businesses is unclear. Commercial bank mergers have profoundly altered the urban credit marketplace and are positioned to do the same for the agricultural credit marketplace....

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Factors Affecting Adoption of Recommended Management Practices in Stocker Cattle Production

Johnson, Rachel J.; Doye, Damona G.; Lalman, David L.; … - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 42 (2010) 01

Binary logit regression models were used to estimate factors affecting adoption of recommended management practices. Variables analyzed include aspects of farm structure, human capital, farm objectives, and production system employed by the producer. Results reveal that operation size and...

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IMPACTS OF FINANCIAL CHARACTERISTICS AND THE BOOM-BUST CYCLE ON THE FARM INVENTORY-CASH FLOW RELATIONSHIP

Bierlen, Ralph W.; Ahrendsen, Bruce L.; Dixon, Bruce L. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 30 (1998) 02

The sensitivity of farm inventory investment to movements in cash flow is tested. Inventories should be sensitive to … shifts in cash flow because inventory investment is readily reversible and inventories are a significant portion of assets …. Investment models estimated with Kansas farm panel data indicate that: (a) farms absorb internal finance shocks by adjusting …

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