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| Sedaghat Hosseini, Morteza; Mohammadi, Ahmad; Arezou, Mohsen; Koorang Beheshti, Amir Masoud. |
| The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between farm size and energy productivity of wheat production in west Azerbaijan province, Iran. Farmers with different farm sizes (less than two hectares, between two and five hectares and more than five hectares) were randomly selected. Questionnaires were filled by 61 farmers. Then total used energy, produced energy, energy productivity and energy ratio were calculated for each farm. Also the relationship between energy indexes and three methods of tillage and planting (combination machine, seed drill and seed spreader) and three harvesting methods (combine harvester, mower and hand tools) were calculated. The data were analyzed by SPSS software. The results showed that fertilizers... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Farm size; Energy productivity; Used energy; Energy production. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://www.cigrjournal.org/index.php/Ejounral/article/view/2705 |
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| D'Souza, Gerard E.; Ikerd, John E.. |
| A new, post-industrial, paradigm for agriculture is emerging under the concept of sustainable agriculture. The sustainability paradigm has emerged to solve problems created by the industrial model, primarily environmental pollution and resource base degradation. The role of farm size in this transformation to a more sustainable agriculture is the issue addressed. Using a descriptive approach, and relying on a survey of the literature including emerging paradigms and observations, we conclude that, from a sustainability perspective, the smallest effective size will be the most competitive size for farms, as for other knowledge-based enterprises of the future. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Farm size; Paradigms; Sustainability; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15243 |
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| Cattle, Nathan; White, Benedict. |
| The production performance of wheatbelt farms in Western Australia is analysed to determine whether potential to exploit scale economies and improve technical efficiency has driven the trend towards increased farm size. An input-orientated stochastic frontier model is used to estimate technical efficiency and scale economies using an unbalanced panel dataset provided by BankWest for the period 1995/1996 to 2005/2006. Differences in the relative efficiency of farms are explored by the simultaneous estimation of a model of inefficiency effects. The results show the majority of wheatbelt farms operate at high levels of technical efficiency and experience increasing returns to scale. Over the study period farms became bigger to benefit from economies of scale,... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Stochastic frontier; Agriculture; Farm size; Scale economies; Technical efficiency; Productivity Analysis. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10392 |
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| Mishra, Ashok K.; Williams, Robert P.; Detre, Joshua D.. |
| The Internet is becoming an increasingly important management tool in production agriculture. Using data from the 2004 Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) and a double-hurdle estimation approach, we explore the adoption of computers with Internet access by and Internet purchasing patterns of farm households. Adoption of the Internet is positively related to age and education of the operator, off-farm work, presence of spouse, participation in government programs, farm size, and regional location of the farm. Internet purchasing patterns of farm households are positively related to the education of the operator and spouse, presence of teenagers, and regional location of the farm. Finally, farm businesses and their households are more likely to... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Adoption of Internet; Education; Farm size; Farm households; Internet; Double-hurdle model; Farm business; Major household items; Minor farm inputs; Agricultural Finance; Consumer/Household Economics; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55545 |
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| Painter, Marvin J.. |
| This study assesses the reported farm income crisis in Canada and uses farm financial data to illustrate the importance and impact that management skills and practices have on farm income and net worth. For grain and oilseed farms, large farms produce higher revenues per hectare and achieve economies of scale on operating expenses, interest and depreciation, making them significantly more profitable than smaller or average sized farms. The higher profits associated with large farms are partly returns to good farm management. While farmland investment returns are competitive with stock and bond markets, grain and oilseed farm labour and management returns are not competitive with provincial average wages and salaries. On average, Canadian grain and oilseed... |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Canada; Skills; Farm incomes; Farm size; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122234 |
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| Eze, Christopher C.; Konkwo, S.O.; Orebiyi, J.S.; Kadiri, F.A.. |
| This study examined land tenure systems, farm sizes, agricultural productivity and innovation in Imo State, Nigeria. Specifically the study examined the socio-economic characteristics of farmers, estimated the farm size of the farmers, identified reasons for not practicing mechanized farming, identified different innovations available to the farmers and identified the factors that affected agricultural productivity . Five communities were chosen randomly and from each of these communities, twenty farmers were randomly chosen. Data were collected, collated and analyzed using relevant techniques such as means, percentages, frequency distribution and multiple regression analysis. The results showed that 85% of the respondents practiced individual land tenure... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Land Tenure system; Farm size; Agricultural productivity; Innovation; Productivity Analysis. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108934 |
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| Weiss, Christoph R.; Thiele, Holger D.. |
| The liberalization of agricultural markets has increased the interest of farmers (as well as those working on policies concerned with their welfare) in agricultural diversification strategies. However, empirical research on diversification in European agricultural markets is very limited. This paper follows OUSTAPASSIDIS (1992) and investigates the relationship between different diversification strategies and farm performance (farm growth rates). The results of fixed– and random-effect models for approx. 3900 farms in Schleswig-Holstein for the period 1988/89–1997/98 show that diversification into related products increases growth rates whereas the opposite applies for diversification into unrelated products. Initial farm size has a significant and... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Diversification; Growth; Farm size; Dynamic panel data analysis; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/98120 |
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| Yee, Jet; Ahearn, Mary Clare; Huffman, Wallace E.. |
| This paper examines the linkages among agricultural total factor productivity, farm size, and farm household participation in the off-farm labor market for the Southeastern states for the period 1960-1996. We find evidence of a simultaneous relationship between productivity and measures of farm structure. The results support the expected relationships between the endogenous variables, namely that productivity and farm size are positively related, farm size and off-farm work participation are negatively related, and off-farm work and productivity are negatively related. We find positive and significant impacts of government policies (investments in public research, extension, and highways) on productivity growth. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Farm size; Off-farm work; Productivity; Southeast; Structural change; J22; O47; Q15; Q16; Q18. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43450 |
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| Maung, Thein A.; Gustafson, Cole R.. |
| This study examines the impact of stochastic harvest field time, corn cob and stover harvest technologies, increases in farm size, and alternative tillage practices on profit maximizing potential of corn cob and stover collection in North Dakota. Using three mathematical programming models, we analyze farmers’ harvest activities under 1) corn grain only harvest option, 2) simultaneous corn grain and cob harvest(one-pass) option 3) separate corn grain and stover harvest (two-pass) option. Under the first corn grain only option, farmers are able to complete harvesting corn grain and achieve maximum net income in a fairly short amount of time with existing combine technology. However, under the simultaneous corn grain and cob one-pass harvest option, our... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Cob; Stover; Harvest field time; Optimization; Farm size; Tillage; Crop Production/Industries; Production Economics. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103613 |
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| Mpyisi, Edson; Weber, Michael T.; Shingiro, Emmanuel; Loveridge, Scott. |
| There have been major shifts/changes in land use patterns in Rwanda over the past twelve years. A few striking observations include: As a percentage of total farmland, cultivated land increased. The increase in cultivated land occurred at the expense of pasture and fallow and woodlot. The share of pasture and fallow decreased from 22% in 1990 to 14% in 2002 and woodlot decreased from 11% in 1990 to 7% in 2002. This trend of increasing cultivated land is apparent from the mid-eighties to today. These observations imply that land is being farmed much more intensively without much time to fallow and allow the soil to rejuvenate. Pasture and woodlot are also being cut down at the expense of cultivation. This has important potential implications for... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Allocation of land; Farm size; Rwanda; Land Economics/Use; Q18. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55356 |
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| Fernandez-Cornejo, Jorge; Mishra, Ashok K.; Nehring, Richard F.; Hendricks, Chad; Southern, Malaya; Gregory, Alexandra. |
| The economic well-being of most U.S. farm households depends on income from both onfarm and off-farm activities. Consequently, for many farm households, economic decisions (including technology adoption and other production decisions) are likely to be shaped by the allocation of managerial time among such activities. While time allocation decisions are usually not measured directly, we observe the outcomes of such decisions, such as onfarm and off-farm income. This report finds that a farm operator’s off-farm employment and off-farm income vary inversely with the size of the farm. Operators of smaller farm operations improve their economic performance by compensating for the scale disadvantages of their farm business with more off-farm involvement.... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Off-farm income; Farm households; Economic performance; Managerial time; Scale economies; Scope economies; Technical efficiency; Technology adoption; Farm size; Agricultural Finance; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7234 |
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