IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/rre/publsh/v23y1993i3p265-286.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Farm Structure And Community Viability In The Northern Great Plains

Author

Listed:
  • Jack C. Stabler

    (University of Saskatchewan)

  • M. R. Olfert

    (University of Saskatchewan)

Abstract

The way in which the economic base of regional economies influences the viability of the communities that serve them has been a subject of inquiry for several decades. Many previous studies have been static in nature, thereby failing to capture the influence of changes in the base through time. Others, conducted over a period of years, have included only one (or a few) independent variables and have, consequently, provided a very selective view of the relationship. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the viability of 598 communities distributed among three agricultural economic regions in Saskatchewan over a 30-year period. A total of37 variables describes each community at three points in time during the period studied. A distinct positive association is observed between agricultural diversification, smaller farms, higher population density, and community viability. Conversely, a higher incidence of decline is associated with lack of diversification, larger farms, and lower population density.

Suggested Citation

  • Jack C. Stabler & M. R. Olfert, 1993. "Farm Structure And Community Viability In The Northern Great Plains," The Review of Regional Studies, Southern Regional Science Association, vol. 23(3), pages 265-286, Winter.
    • Handle: RePEc:rre:publsh:v23:y:1993:i:3:p:265-286
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://journal.srsa.org/ojs/index.php/RRS/article/view/23.3.5/pdf/
    File Function: To View On Journal Page
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: http://journal.srsa.org/ojs/index.php/RRS/article/download/23.3.5/500
    File Function: To Download Article
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Gerald Hodge, 1965. "The Prediction Of Trade Center Viability In The Great Plains," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 15(1), pages 87-115, January.
    2. Michael N. Hayes & Alan L. Olmstead, 1984. "Farm Size and Community Quality: Arvin and Dinuba Revisited," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 66(4), pages 430-436.
    3. Gordon F. Mulligan, 1984. "Agglomeration and Central Place Theory: A Review of the Literature," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 9(1), pages 1-42, September.
    4. Andrew P. Barkley, 1990. "The Determinants of the Migration of Labor out of Agriculture in the United States, 1940–85," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 72(3), pages 567-573.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Nagy, Cecil N. & Olfert, M. Rose & Skotheim, J., 2004. "Targeting Business Investment in Rural Communities," Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, vol. 34(4), pages 1-21.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose & Tobias D. Ketterer, 2012. "Do Local Amenities Affect The Appeal Of Regions In Europe For Migrants?," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(4), pages 535-561, October.
    2. Breustedt, Gunnar & Mees, Martin, 2010. "Growth Of German Dairy Farms Under The Eu Milk Quota," 50th Annual Conference, Braunschweig, Germany, September 29-October 1, 2010 93950, German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA).
    3. Marcelo Castillo & Diane Charlton, 2023. "Housing booms and H‐2A agricultural guest worker employment," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 105(2), pages 709-731, March.
    4. John Carruthers, 2012. "Editorial note," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 49(2), pages 289-292, October.
    5. Garrone, Maria & Emmers, Dorien & Olper, Alessandro & Swinnen, Johan, 2019. "Jobs and agricultural policy: Impact of the common agricultural policy on EU agricultural employment," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 87(C), pages 1-1.
    6. César A Hidalgo, 2020. "Trillion dollar streets," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 47(7), pages 1133-1135, September.
    7. Arpita Khare, 0. "Location and agglomeration factors predicting retailers’ preference for Indian malls," Journal of Marketing Analytics, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 0, pages 1-22.
    8. Thomas F. P. Wiesen & Todd Gabe & Lakshya Bharadwaj, 2023. "Econometric connectedness as a measure of urban influence: evidence from Maine," Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Springer, vol. 16(1), pages 1-16, December.
    9. Dominique Peeters & Jacques Thisse & Isabelle Thomas, 1998. "Transportation networks and the location of human activities," ERSA conference papers ersa98p268, European Regional Science Association.
    10. Cigler, Beverly A. & Jansen, Anicca C. & Ryan, Vernon D. & Stabler, Jack C., 1994. "Toward An Understanding of Multicommunity Collaboration," Staff Reports 278731, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    11. H. Fredrick Gale, Jr., 1996. "Retail Sales Pull Factors In U.S. Counties," The Review of Regional Studies, Southern Regional Science Association, vol. 26(2), pages 177-195, Fall.
    12. Brosig, Stephan & Glauben, Thomas & Herzfeld, Thomas & Rozelle, Scott & Wang, Xiaobing, 2007. "The dynamics of Chinese rural households' participation in labor markets," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 37(2-3), pages 167-178.
    13. Roeder, Norbert & Kilian, Stefan, 2009. "Regional differences in the determinants for structural change in German agriculture," 2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China 51463, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    14. Mark D. Partridge & Dan S. Rickman & Kamar Ali & M. Rose Olfert, 2008. "The Geographic Diversity of U.S. Nonmetropolitan Growth Dynamics: A Geographically Weighted Regression Approach," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 84(2), pages 241-266.
    15. Chris Jacobs‐Crisioni & Mert Kompil & Lewis Dijkstra, 2023. "Big in the neighbourhood: Identifying local and regional centres through their network position," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 102(2), pages 421-457, April.
    16. Vladimir Marianov & H. A. Eiselt, 2016. "On agglomeration in competitive location models," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 246(1), pages 31-55, November.
    17. Chr. R. Weiss, 1992. "The Effect Of Price Reduction And Direct Income Support Policies On Agricultural Input Markets In Austria," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 43(1), pages 1-13, January.
    18. Luis Suarez-Villa, 1988. "Metropolitan Evolution, Sectoral Economic Change, and the City Size Distribution," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 25(1), pages 1-20, February.
    19. Unknown, 1998. "Commodity Costs and Returns Estimation Handbook (entire book-condensed file)," Commodity Costs and Returns Estimation Handbook,, Iowa State University.
    20. David Mushinski & Stephan Weiler & Benjamin Widner, 2014. "The impact of retail establishments in hinterlands on the export role of retail establishments in rural places," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 52(2), pages 469-487, March.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:rre:publsh:v23:y:1993:i:3:p:265-286. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Tammy Leonard & Lei Zhang (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.srsa.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.