Off-farm employment and reasons for entering farming as determinants of production enterprise selection in US agriculture

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 411-428

  Gillespie, Jeffrey ^a   Mishra, Ashok ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversification; Goals; Government payments; Off farm employment; Production enterprise; Tobit

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; FARMING SYSTEM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OFF-FARM EMPLOYMENT; POLICY DEVELOPMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959897823     PISSN: 1364985X     EISSN: 14678489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8489.2011.00542.x     Document Type: Article

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