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Provedor de dados:  AgEcon
País:  United States
Título:  What Does Initial Farm Size Imply About Growth and Diversification?
Autores:  Melhim, Almuhanad
O'Donoghue, Erik J.
Shumway, C. Richard
Data:  2009-04-02
Ano:  2009
Palavras-chave:  Diversification
Firm growth
Gibrat’s law
Longitudinal data
Scale economies
Scope economies
Agribusiness
Farm Management
Production Economics
Q12
Resumo:  Recent consolidation in agriculture has shifted production toward fewer but larger farms, reshaping business relationships between farmers, processors, input suppliers, and local communities. We analyze growth and diversification of U.S. corn, wheat, apple, and beef farms by examining longitudinal changes in 10 size cohorts through three successive censuses. We fail to reject Gibrat’s law in apple and wheat industries and the mean reversion hypothesis in beef and corn industries. Apple and wheat farms diversify over time. The findings suggest that scale economies diminish for large farms across all four industries and scope economies dominate scale economies for large apple and wheat farms.
Tipo:  Journal Article
Idioma:  Inglês
Identificador:  http://purl.umn.edu/48757
Relação:  Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics>Volume 41, Number 01, April 2009
Formato:  14
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