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| Title: | The Role of Productivity Growth and Farmers' Income Protection Policies in the Decline of Relative Farm Prices in the United States |
| Authors: | Miljkovic, Dragan
Jin, Hyun Joung
Paul, Rodney |
| Keywords: | Government transfers
Productivity growth
Relative farm prices |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | Agribusiness and Applied Economics Report No. 600 |
| Abstract: | The paper emphasizes three interrelated questions about the decline in relative farm to non-farm prices in the United States since 1973; 1) Is it unusual, 2) What caused it, and 3) Is it likely to continue? We find that based on historical and international evidence this phenomenon may be considered unusual. Separating farm price and income support in 1973 and growing relative productivity in agriculture has been the major contributor to changing the trend of the relative farm goods inflation. This trend is likely to continue based on predicted steady growth of relative agricultural productivity and continuation of direct payments and other forms of farm income support policies. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/9368 |
| Institution/Association: | North Dakota State University>Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics>Agribusiness & Applied Economics Report |
| Total Pages: | 23 |
| Language: | English |
| Collections: | Agribusiness & Applied Economics Report
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