This study examines the trade-off between the offered rental rate and on-farm and off-farm benefits made by North Carolina farmers during the 15 sign-up of the US Conservation Reserve Program. This program allows farmers to offer a ten year contract for an annual rental rate from the government to remove land from production and put it to a conservation use. Bid acceptance depends on the potent...

If farmers are risk averse, greater farm income variability should increase off-farm labor supply. This effect is confirmed for a sample of Kansas farmers. Off-farm employment of farmers and their spouses is also found to be significantly influenced by farm experience, off-farm work experience, farm size, leverage, efficiency, and farm-specific education. In addition, farm operators and spouses...

This paper aims to address two key issues in the agricultural economics of transition economies: (i) what do we understand about the process of agricultural transformation in transition economies with respect to the distribution of collective and state farm assets and why is this process so important; and (ii) why the Joint Stock Company model of agricultural privatisation in transition economi...

More efficient and economical production systems are needed to improve the sustainability of dairy farms. One concept to consider is using perennial cows. Perennial cows are those that maintain a relatively high milk production for >or=2 yr without going through the typical dry period followed by calving. Farm records show that some cows have produced over 20 kg/d after 4 yr of continuous lacta...

We consider the effect of perceived economic pressures on the ethical attitudes of farmers. We hypothesize that an increase in the economic pressures a farmer faces could result in that farmer being more tolerant of unethical conduct than farmers not experiencing economic pressures. To test this hypothesis, we use data from a survey of 3,000 Missouri farmers with farm sales in excess of $10,000...

This paper presents an overview of the development of macroeconomic conditions in Ukrainian agriculture from 1990 to the present, and highlights the main features of land privatization & farm reorganization that have strong impact on the environment. In this regard, the review describes the major agri-environmental issues drawn from national Ukrainian datasets accompanied by a discussion of the...