Farmers’ technology adoption in electric irrigation has recently been analyzed as a coordination problem. To study how the Pareto-inferior equilibrium, farmers are trapped in, can be overcome we have developed a framed field experiment. Leadership and group size are varied in a full factorial...

Die Analyse untersucht für die Schweiz den Zusammenhang zwischen dem Grasanteil in der Milchviehfütterung einerseits und der Milchleistung sowie dem Arbeitsverdienst, dem Jahreseinkommen einer Vollzeitfamilienarbeitskraft, andererseits. Auf Basis von über 6500 Betriebsbeobachtungen aus dem...

The influence of farming collectives on income per annual work unit (AWU) is investigated by means of regressions for three types of farms with animal husbandry. The effects are relatively small, and turn out differently for the three farm types. Whereas the effect is negative for the dairy...