The success of efforts to promote sustainability and growth of beginning farmers and ranchers (BFRs) depends on a set of diverse factors whose individual impacts on the survival or exit from farming need to be examined. This paper evaluates how a variety of economic and demographic factors,...

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The performance, management, and risk exposure of financial institutions operating in rural and agricultural markets determine the cost of agriculture’s ongoing access to financial capital. The evolution of general banking and agricultural finance research contributions in the structure,...