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Abstract
The aim of article is to present the key economic determinants of family farm income. The data from the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) are used. These data include basic information about the situation of ca 1900 production types according to economic size in the EU in the years 2004- 2017. Moreover, an attempt is made to use the panel models to evaluate the economic determinants of family farm income. The Gretl programme is used to evaluate fixed effect models, allowing to choose seven statistically significant variables among a potential twenty-two economic determinants of family farm income. Next, estimation of models depending on the farm size is made. These economic determinants are: utilised agricultural area, share of crop and livestock production in total production, subsidies per farm, net investment per hectare, cash flow per hectare and input calculated per hectare. The impact of variables varies according to the economic size of a farm, but all the models include two variables: cash flow per ha and subsidies. Therefore, these are the most significant economic determinants of family farm income in the EU, regardless of the economic size of agricultural farm.