Financial adjustment in US agriculture

A model of farm financial adjustment is developed to provide empirical estimates of the transition needed to achieve more stable asset and debt distributions in agriculture. The collective effect of microeconomic responses over time are used to provide insights into potential population dynamics in response to farm financial stress. Several macroeconomic scenarios are simulated and several financial stress alleviation policies are analyzed

Economic Evaluation of Alternative Sheep Production Systems in Oklahoma

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Agricultural Restructuring Requirements by Farm Credit System District

Farm financial stress in the United States is a persistent problem that remains to be reckoned with by agricultural policymakers, agricultural lenders, and rural communities. A surge of farm income in 1986 afforded temporary relief to some operators; the long-term projections however, indicate that farm financial stress will continue to affect a sizable segment of the farm population