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© 1987 Oxford University Press and the Foundation for the European Review of Agricultural Economics

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The growth of farms*

MARTIN UPTON1 and SIMON HAWORTH2,**

1Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Reading U.K.
2MAFF Scholar, University of Reading U.K.

Received August 1, 1985; Revision received August 1, 1987.

Summary

A cross-sectional time series of farm accounts for 81 farms and 14 years was used to compare relative growth-rates of gross output, size in hectares, labour force and machinery depreciation. Highly significant differences were observed between types of farming groups and between farms within groups. Growth rates were independent of size, but strongly associated with measures of managerial ability and family size, and negatively with off-farm income. It is concluded that the observed size distribution of farms is the outcome of differential growth in the past rather than of a static optimising decision.


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