What farmer types are most likely to adopt joint venture farm business structures?

Marit Kragt, Brendan Lynch, Rick S. Llewellyn and Wendy Umberger

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2019, vol. 63, issue 4

Abstract: Joint venture (JV) farm structures have the potential to increase the productivity and profitability of traditional family farms. However, such structures are not widely adopted within the farm business community. Furthermore, knowledge on the relative attractiveness ofdifferentJVmodels to farmers is limited. We use a choice experiment to explore what JV structures are preferred by Australian farmers, and how farmers’ socio-demographic and attitudinal characteristics influence the type of JV structure preferred. A latent class analysis revealed significant unobserved preference heterogeneity amongst the population. We identify four latent classes that differ in their preferences regarding the number of JV partners, access to new machinery, and/or the opportunity for additional annual leave. All classes of farmers displayed positive preferences for operational decision-making with other JV partners, although they varied in their preferences towards final operational responsibility. The diversity in preferences shows that there is no ‘one size fits all’ JV design, leaving opportunities for a range of JV decisionmodels. Such flexibilityin JV designislikely to have advantages when seeking JV partners, with a significant proportion of the sampled population open to collaborative decision-making models.

Keywords: Farm; Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.333857

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