Companion Piece to Extension Economics Notes # 2011-1

The majority of farm families have not named a successor nor developed an up-to-date farm business transition and estate plan. This program effort was designed to enable these farm families gain a better understanding of the process required and thus develop and implement a farm transition and...

This paper explicitly models the interdependent finance and investment decision in order to increase the understanding on how fluctuations in agricultural investment are attributable to changes in financial decisions. Euler equations for investment and finance are estimated by the use of the GMM...

A national interregional linear programming model of U.S. agriculture is used to evaluate and compare two conventional and three organic production alternatives. The objective is to estimate the effects on production, supply prices, land use, farm income, and export potential, of a complete...