Entry, Exit, and Farm Size: Assessing an Experiment in Dairy Price Policy

Jeremy Foltz

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2004, vol. 86, issue 3, 594-604

Abstract: This article models and estimates the forces behind farm exits and changes in herd-size among Connecticut dairy farms under the New England Dairy Compact. A model of sunk costs and farm capital investment is used to specify two econometric estimations: a random effects probit model of farm entry and exit and an autocorrelated generalized least squares panel data model of farm size. The Dairy Compact's price strategy reduced farm exits and moderately increased cow numbers. In contrast, development pressures and historically low unemployment rates increased farm exits. Copyright 2004, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2004
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