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...

Farm numbers and average farm size in the United States have held about constant since the 1974 Census. but the proportion of mid-sized farms has decreased This pattern follows four decades of a strong trend toward fewer and larger farms Markov analysis IS a standard procedure for projecting...

The selling price of agricultural land has shown an unprecedented rise over the last 25 years, due to a number of factors. Economists and real estate men have attempted to appraise the role of (1) land purchases as a hedge against inflation, (2) higher returns per acre, (3) the need for farm...

Estimates of the effect of urbanization on farmland values and eventually food prices are presented. These estimates, which reveal a strong positive relationship between urbanization and farmland values, are used to construct elasticities of farmland value related to population density for the...

Changes in farming systems require shifts in types of investment and expansion in the use of capital on farms. In this discussion the writer analyzes a capital, credit and loan repayment plan of aid in shifting from cotton to cotton-livestock farming on medium-sized farms in the Southern...

Developing implicit rental rates for capital inputs is an Important step in understanding the Impact of tax law changes on agricultural investments This article develops a methodology for estimating implicit rental rates and presents annual estimates of rental rates for seven categories of farm...

Data on lending activities of major farm real estate ienders are summarized. The loan data show the amount of loans made and repaid during each year as well as the amount outstanding at the beginning of each year. The interest rate data show the contractual rates charged on new loans during each...

Minimum wage legislation which results in higher avcrage wage rates for farm laborers would affect the assct stmcture and income flows of farm operators. A simulation model of financial struchlre of thc farm sector is uscd to show that highcr wage rates would result in inereased nonreal estate...