Using farm-level data from the 1987, 1992, and 1997 Census of Agriculture, this study estimates what effect … agricultural payments have had on the likelihood of farm business survival and on farm size. The unique panel data set permits … conditioning current farm size on past farm size, which removes much of the individual heterogeneity of farms that could be …

Information on prices and price risk differences across marketing arrangements aids fed cattle producers in making … choices about marketing methods. As part of the congressionally mandated Livestock and Meat Marketing Study, we investigated … fed cattle price and price risk differences across marketing arrangements. The analysis uses data representing cattle …