Productivity Increases With Farm Size in the Heartland Region

Nigel Key

Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2018, vol. December 2018, issue 11

Abstract: Between 1982 and 2012, larger crop farms were more productive than smaller crop farms in the Heartland region. This productivity gap has widened over time and may have driven the ongoing shift in production to larger farms. Aggregate productivity of Heartland crop farms increased by 64 percent. About one-sixth of this growth was due to a shift in production to larger more productive farms.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.302675

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