Knapp, Edward; Loughrey, Jason - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 5 (2017) 9, pp. 1-15
Agricultural income volatility has become a major hurdle for Irish farmers and policymakers to overcome in their drive … to increase investment, production and ultimately income in the sector. This paper studies data from 927 farms in the … Teagasc National Farm Survey between 2005 and 2013, the first 9 years of the decoupled subsidy era. The primary income support …