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| Title: | The measurement of farm size and the meaning of part-time farming: the AARES countries |
| Authors: | Lund, Philip J.
Price, Roger |
| Keywords: | Farm
Agricultural holding
Farm size
Averages
Part-time farming |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | Conference Paper |
| Abstract: | This paper examines what, precisely, is meant by a 'farm', the criteria for the inclusion of individual
farms in a statistical register and the resulting enumerations and average sizes of farms in published
statistics. Alternative measures of farm size are examined and a relatively novel measure of
average farm size proposed to cope with the possibly uncertain population of farms. This is
illustrated with reference to data relating to the AARES countries and to the UK. Finally the
meaning of the expression 'part-time' as applied to farmers or farms is examined, with a call for
great clarity in its use. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/10393 |
| Institution/Association: | Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society - 2007>2007 Conference (51st), February 13-16, 2007, Queenstown, New Zealand |
| Total Pages: | 17 |
| Language: | English |
| Collections: | 2007 Conference (51st), February 13-16, 2007, Queenstown, New Zealand
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