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Size, structure, and the changing face of American agriculture

Title: Size, structure, and the changing face of American agriculture / edited by Arne Hallam.
Publication: Boulder : Westview Press, [1993], ©1993.

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Additional Authors

Hallam, Arne.

Description

xi, 627 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Importance of size and structure in U.S. agriculture -- Farm structure -- Structure of agriculture in an historical context -- Changes in farm size and structure in American agriculture in the twentieth century -- Recent changes in size and structure of agriculture -- Production cost-size relationship -- Economies of size -- Empirical studies of size, structure, and efficiency in agriculture -- Why are some farms more successful than others? -- Use of firm-level agricultural data collected and managed at the state level for studying farm size issues -- Micro-level agricultural data collected and managed by the Federal Government -- Technology and its impact on American agriculture -- Government commodity program impacts on farm numbers -- Implications of tax policy for farm structure -- Structural implications of agricultural -- Changing food and agribusiness sector -- Structural diversity under risk -- Empirical analysis of tenure patterns and farm structure -- Structure of families and changes in farm organization and structure -- Structural change in farming and its relationship to rural communities.
(cont) Farm structure and stewardship of the environment -- Projections of structural change and the future of American agriculture.

ISBN

0813386063

LCCN

93029046

OCLC

ocm28547440

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries