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...

With the growing competition for Federal dollars, the land grant universities were asked to justify their budget to the Congress and the Office of Management and Budget using benefitcost analysis. The authors review previous studies of returns to agricultural research and present an analysis of...

A pilot Intensive Agricultural Development Program, popularly known as IADP, or Package Program, was undertaken by India in cooperation with the Ford Foundation in 1960. It was designed for participation by all farmers in selected districts. Assistance in adoption of a locally adapted "package"...

This paper uses a model previously developed for empirical evaluation of the impact of commodity price-support programs on corn acreage (sec J. P. Houck and M. E. Ryan, "Supply Analysis for Corn in the United States ....," Amer. Jour. Agr. Econ. 54: May 1972) to evaluate the impact of...