Crop enterprise diversification and specialty crops

Agricultural Finance Review

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 85-98

  Popp, Michael ^a   Rudstrom, Margot ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop enterprise selection; Diversification; Portfolio theory; Specialty crops

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645497300     PISSN: 00021466     EISSN: 20416326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00214710080001112     Document Type: Article

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