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 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 15.1 million acres of U.S. agricultural land as of December 31, 1995. This is slightly more than 1 percent of all privately held agricultural land and 0.67 percent of all land in the United states. These and other findings are based on an analysis of reports submitted in...

Metropolitan agriculture is not homogeneous. This paper delves beneath metropolitan county averages using data on individual farms in the Northeast classified into three statistically distinct types. A small group of adaptive farms profit from intensive production on smaller acreage to...