From generation to generation: Drawing the threads together

Keeping it in the Family: International Perspectives on Succession and Retirement on Family Farms

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 213-240

  Whitehead, Ian ^a   Lobley, Matt ^b   Baker, John R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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