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 …

We use a nonparametric estimation of the production function to investigate the relation- ship between farm …. Household data on farm activities and crop production was gathered among 640 households in 2007 in two Northern provinces of … to be farm scale dependent. Parametric Cobb-Douglass models tend to over-simplify the debate on returns to scale because …

is closely related to farm size. In the event of the envisaged repayment over five or six years, farms with a larger area …

Internet access by and Internet purchasing patterns of farm households. Adoption of the Internet is positively related to age … and education of the operator, off-farm work, presence of spouse, participation in government programs, farm size, and … regional location of the farm. Internet purchasing patterns of farm households are positively related to the education of the …

base degradation. The role of farm size in this transformation to a more sustainable agriculture is the issue addressed …

farm’s current or historical production, but whether payments have contributed to farm growth is uncertain. This study uses … farm-level data from the census of agriculture to determine whether there is a statistical relationship between farm … commodity program payments per acre are associated with subsequent farm growth. Also, higher payments per acre are associated …

The duality of farm structure in Moldova is manifested by the existence of a relatively small number of large corporate … family farms through the medium of land markets until an equilibrium is established between the two farm sectors at a new …

The economic well-being of most U.S. farm households depends on income from both onfarm and off-farm activities …. Consequently, for many farm households, economic decisions (including technology adoption and other production decisions) are … not measured directly, we observe the outcomes of such decisions, such as onfarm and off-farm income. This report finds …

This paper examines the farm size and productivity relationship using data from Nepalese mid hills. The household data …) between farm size and output per hectare. Total cash input use and labour hours per hectare were found to be higher on small … the explanation that the IR between farm size and productivity is due to variation in regions as well as access to …

. We use instrumental variables to account for the endogeneity of initial farm size, and correct for selectivity due to … farm survival. We also include a technical efficiency index, derived from the estimation of a stochastic frontier … production model, as an explanatory variable. We find that technical efficiency is an important determinant of farm growth, and …