This paper aims to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine investments, and
the demand for machine services using farm panel data from China. Recently, China's …

The successive reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the enlargements of the
European Union (EU) and the impacts of climate change have amplified the diversity of …

This study examines the exit process of Western European farmers. Using a simple
theoretical model of structural change, we examine empirically the impact of farm …

We identify the effects of alternative explanatory variables on the propensity of US farmers to
cease farming, with a particular emphasis on understanding the roles of off‐farm …

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It is stated that farmers need to become more entrepreneurial to compete in modern
agriculture. Much of the literature on agricultural entrepreneurship, however, has been …

Few studies of agrarian transition examine what farmers themselves feel about farming. Are
they cultivating out of choice or a lack of options? What distinguishes farmers who like …

This paper investigates the relationship between farm exits and various farm, family, and
regional characteristics during the period of 1991 to 1999. Using county-level data for 326 …

The US dairy industry has seen major restructuring in recent decades. A sharp decline in the
number of US dairy farms and an increase in average herd sizes have accompanied exits …

Agricultural productivity varies greatly among agricultural systems and among regions in
Europe. A multilevel logistic regression model was applied to investigate the labour …