Though integration has been well worked over by agricultural economists, it still deserves further thought, because of differences in the insight and outlook of people, and partly because integration deals with topics of enduring interest—shifting enterprise combinations. In this paper,...

The aggregate economic indicators and statistical series published by the U S Department of Agriculture provide insufficient Information for decisionmakers requesting disaggregated analyses of farm industries, farm types, or farm Sizes However, this Information can be obtained through the annual...

Changes in real interest rates may affect the rate of adjustment of machinery to optimal levels This finding results from the development and application of a theoretically consistent analytical framework for examining agricultural investment 10 machinery Results from duality theory on...

As land represents more than half of the investment in agriculture in the United States, it follows that the nature of its ownership is related to the public interest. Our national supplies of food and fiber depend upon the output of the land. Title to it as he wishes. He may let it lie idle or...

Technology creates changes in agriculture that all segments of the agricultural community need to consider to anticipate the resulting impacts. Objectives of the research were to project the size and number of farming operations in eastern Washington and to examine the implications for farm size...

Valid measures of the changing output of the marketing system in comparison with the inputs of resources such as labor are of basic importance in appraising the efficiency of the marketing system, in determining those segments of the system where possibilities for improvement are marked, and in...

Although the number of U S farms ,has declined substantially over the past four decades, the' number of farmland owners and the proportion of rented farmland have remained relatively constant In 1978, there were,an estimated 39 million farmland owners, but.fewer than 2 5 million farm operators...

Empirical studies of plant costs and efficiency always have stressed the importance of both size of plant and length of operating season on the level and shape of the economies of scale curve as well as the technical organization of production implied in it. Because most processing firms are...