...Rebecca Weir; Joleen Hadrich; Alessandro Bonanno; Becca B.R. Jablonski Purpose Beginning Farmer and Rancher programs are available for operators with ten years of experience or less on any farm. These programs support farmers who are starting operations, often without an initial asset allocation...

... to evaluate how barriers to entry, access to and use of credit, local economic environment, and climate affect entry and exit of Beginning Farmers and Ranchers (BFRs). The dataset is assembled from several sources matching the Census of Agriculture years for the period of 1997–2017. Findings Results show...

... that evaluate the implications from changes in access to credit on credit-constrained borrowers and their use of NTLs’ credit. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Non-traditional lenders Beginning farmers and ranchers Credit constrains Credit...

...). Consequently, there has been an increasing interest in understanding the next generation of agricultural producers (Ahearn and Newton, 2009). Different agencies of the USDA have defined beginning farmers and ranchers in different ways over the past decade. The Economic Research Service (ERS) defines...