SOIL MANAGEMENT AND THE FARM TYPOLOGY: DO SMALL FAMILY FARMS MANAGE SOIL AND NUTRIENT RESOURCES DIFFERENTLY THAN LARGE FAMILY FARMS?
| Autor: | Meredith J. Soule |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Typology
Economics and Econometrics Agroforestry Nutrient management business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Animal husbandry Soil management Tillage Agricultural science Agriculture Service (economics) 0502 economics and business Family farm 050202 agricultural economics & policy 050207 economics business Crop Production/Industries Agronomy and Crop Science media_common |
| Popis: | There is increasing recognition that farmers face constraints on their farming decisions depending on the their resources, stage in life, and lifestyle choices. These factors are captured in a new farm typology developed by the Economic Research Service. The farm typology’s definition of small and large farms is used to test the commonly stated hypothesis that small farmers practice better land husbandry than do large farmers. The adoption of eleven different soil and nttfrient management practices used by U.S. corn producers is analyzed with a bivariate logit model for each practice. The farm typology is found to be significantly associated with two of the practices—rotation with legumes and conservation tillage. In the 20th Annual Family Farm Report to Congress (Sommer et al. 1998) on the characteristics of U.S. farms, the Economic Research Service (ERS) reported on a new farm typology that delineates five types of small family farms, large family farms, and nonfamily farms. This typology grew out of the recognition that farmers are not a monolithic group; they face different constraints on their farming decisions depending on the resources available to them, their stage in life and their lifestyle choices (e.g. full-time or part-time farmers). In addition, some policies maybe more appropriate or beneficial for some types of farmers than for others. The typology will be increasingly used to understand in what ways production decisions vary across farmers and how policy instruments might affect different groups of farmers, especially small family farmers, This paper takes as a starting point the hypothesis that farmers’ soil and nutrient management practices differ by farm type, as defined by the ERS typology. This hypothesis is derived from a |
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