Combining survey, census, and administrative data improves the precision of survey estimates of mean agricultural land values. A components-of-variance model is developed and applied to cropland value data for the Corn Belt Performance of the model compared with other procedures is tested using...

This bulletin furnishes farm sector financial ratio estimates developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. These estimates incorporate numerous revisions in estimating procedures and changes in available data. Nationaland State-level estimates of liquidity,...

This report furnishes the latest farm sector balance sheet estimates developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. These estimates incorporate numerous revisions in estimating procedures and changes in available data. National estimates of assets, debt, and equity,...

This article determines the relative technical efficiency of rural- and urban-influenced crop/livestock enterprises in the Corn Belt. Farmers in urban-influenced locations are less technically efficient than farmers in rural locations. During 1998-2000, stochastic production frontier procedures...

Foreign persons owned 14.5 million acres of U.S. agricultural land as of December 31, 1996. This is slightly more than 1 percent of all privately held agricultural land and 0.64 percent of all land in the United States. These and other findings 8.1e based on an analysis of reports submitted in...

This statistical report describes the average market value of farmland and buildings per acre for each county in the 48 coterminous United States from 1850 through 1982. The information from Which the statistics were computed was collected from farm operators in each agricultural census since 1850.

Foreign persons owned 14.3 million acres of U.S. agricultural land as of December 31, 1997. This is slightly more than I percent of all privately held agricultural land and 0.63 percent of all land in the United States. These and other findings are based on an analysis of reports submitted in...