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Growing Farm Size and the Distribution of Farm Payments

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  • MacDonald, James M.
  • Hoppe, Robert A.
  • Banker, David E.

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Crop production is shifting to much larger farms. Since government commodity payments reflect production volumes for program commodities, payments are also shifting to larger farms. In turn, the operators of very large farms have substantially higher household incomes than other farm households, and as a result government commodity payments are also shifting to much higher-income households. Since the changes in farm structure appear to be ongoing, commodity payments will likely, under current policies, continue to shift to higher income households. This brief uses 2003 Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) data to detail the shifts.

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  • MacDonald, James M. & Hoppe, Robert A. & Banker, David E., 2006. "Growing Farm Size and the Distribution of Farm Payments," Economic Brief 34089, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uerseb:34089
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.34089
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    1. Michael W. Robbins & Sujit K. Ghosh & Joshua D. Habiger, 2013. "Imputation in High-Dimensional Economic Data as Applied to the Agricultural Resource Management Survey," Journal of the American Statistical Association, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 108(501), pages 81-95, March.
    2. David Blandford, 2007. "Riding the Roller‐Coaster — What's Next for US Farm Policy? Sur les montagnes russes: Quel avenir pour la politique agricole américaine? Eine Berg‐und‐Tal‐Fahrt – was erwartet die US‐Agrarpolitik als ," EuroChoices, The Agricultural Economics Society, vol. 6(2), pages 20-25, August.
    3. Dr Ray Trewin, 2009. "Poultry Sector Support and Protection, Structural Change and Disease Risk," International and Development Economics Working Papers idec09-01, International and Development Economics.
    4. White, T. Kirk & Hoppe, Robert A., 2012. "Changing Farm Structure and the Distribution of Farm Payments and Federal Crop Insurance," Economic Information Bulletin 120309, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

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