... change. The relationship between credit constraints, risk management strategy adoption and income, however, is not well understood. Consequently, the purpose of this study was to investigate how credit constraints affect the income and risk management practices adopted by Northern Nigerian maize farmers...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Family farm Nonfamily farm Profitability Household well-being Profitability Leverage Income Business life-cycle This paper examines the differences in major financial outcomes between family and nonfamily farms and whether differences stem...

...Eric N. Okoyo; Muluken Gezahegn Wordofa; Jemal Y. Hassen; Moges Bezabih Purpose This study is conducted to evaluate the impact of rural credit on farm household income and food security. Design/methodology/approach A multistage random sampling procedure is implemented to select 180 (82 credit...

...Hisham S. El-Osta Purpose The determinants of income of rural and urban farm households, with emphasis on the role of off-farm employment by farm household members and of farm size, are examined using data from the 2016 Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) and quantile regression...

... different cash rent, or income stream, levels. For land able to generate a $200 per acre cash rent payment stream, the change in the capitalized land value for a 100 basis point increase from 2 to 3 percent is 33 percent ($10,000‐$6,667 per acre). A 100 basis point increase from 5 to 6 percent results...

...Kenneth Poon; Alfons Weersink Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors affecting the relative variability in farm and off‐farm income for Canadian farm operators. Design/methodology/approach Variability of farm and off‐farm income is analyzed using a dataset of 17,000 farm...

... must have produced at least 50 percent of gross cash farm income from milk and dairy animal sales. AGR‐type policies require at least five years of consecutive data available to establish a producer's historical farm average. There were 126 farms with at least five years of consecutive results...

...Ashok K. Mishra; Hung‐Hao Chang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the effects of farm income variability, farm size, and other socio‐demographic characteristics on the precautionary saving behavior of farm households and to estimate the influences of the identified...