TY  - CPAPER 
AB  - Time series data on farm profitability for Australia and South Australia from
ABARE’s farm surveys, shows a minority of businesses consistently profitable
and a majority not. The paper finds evidence of prevalent and persistent
negative farm profit in both available long-run data (1990-2007) and more
recent data (2006-09). Trends in several structural change elements,
productivity, farm size and age of operators, are also examined to aid the
interpretation of farm economic performance in agri-food.
The paper concludes with several contemporary examples of public policy
distorting the structure and performance of the farm sector and spoiling the
usefulness of profitability as an indicator of sectoral performance. Policies on
hobby farming tax benefits, drought, and agribusiness managed investment
schemes policy are discussed in this context
AU  - Lagura, Erwin
AU  - Ronan, Glenn
DA  - 2010
DA  - 2010
DO  - 10.22004/ag.econ.59095
DO  - doi
ID  - 59095
KW  - Agribusiness
L1  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/59095/files/Lagura_Ewin.pdf
L2  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/59095/files/Lagura_Ewin.pdf
L4  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/59095/files/Lagura_Ewin.pdf
LA  - eng
LA  - English
LK  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/59095/files/Lagura_Ewin.pdf
N2  - Time series data on farm profitability for Australia and South Australia from
ABARE’s farm surveys, shows a minority of businesses consistently profitable
and a majority not. The paper finds evidence of prevalent and persistent
negative farm profit in both available long-run data (1990-2007) and more
recent data (2006-09). Trends in several structural change elements,
productivity, farm size and age of operators, are also examined to aid the
interpretation of farm economic performance in agri-food.
The paper concludes with several contemporary examples of public policy
distorting the structure and performance of the farm sector and spoiling the
usefulness of profitability as an indicator of sectoral performance. Policies on
hobby farming tax benefits, drought, and agribusiness managed investment
schemes policy are discussed in this context
PY  - 2010
PY  - 2010
T1  - How Profitable is Farm Business in Australia? Farm Performance Data and Some Implications from ABARE Broadacre and Dairy Industries Farm Surveys
TI  - How Profitable is Farm Business in Australia? Farm Performance Data and Some Implications from ABARE Broadacre and Dairy Industries Farm Surveys
UR  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/59095/files/Lagura_Ewin.pdf
Y1  - 2010
ER  -