...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...

... to credit in local markets and farmers’ choice to borrow from a specific lender. Farmers borrow from different traditional and non-traditional lenders (NTLs) and farmers’ choice of lender may depend on their credit constraints [1] . The literature identifies beginning farmers and ranchers (BFRs) and female...

... producer-level data over time and use those observations to (1) classify producers as beginning farmers or ranchers and (2) evaluate the relationships between land ownership, production practices and profitability. Unfortunately, we do not have access to such detailed data. Instead, we rely on state-level...