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...

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...

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...