The Growth of Farms

Martin Upton and Simon Haworth

European Review of Agricultural Economics, 1987, vol. 14, issue 4, 351-66

Abstract: A cross-sectional time series of farm accounts for eighty-one farms and fourteen years was used to compare r elative growth rates of gross output, size in hectares, labor force, and machinery depreciation. Highly significant differences were obser ved between types of farming groups and between farms within groups. Growth rates were independent of size, but strongly associated with m easures of managerial ability and family size, and negatively with of f-farm income. It is concluded that the observed size distribution of farms is the outcome of differential growth in the past rather than of a static optimizing decision. Copyright 1987 by Oxford University Press.

Date: 1987
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