Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 82 Issue 3

Guest editorial: Special issue on beginning farmers and ranchers

Jeffrey W. Hopkins

Credit constraints and the survival and growth of beginning farms

Nigel Key

Credit may help farmers survive and grow by helping farm households cope with farm or off-farm income variation and by allowing farmers to adopt more efficient production…

Beginning farmer and rancher credit usage by socially disadvantaged status

Bruce L. Ahrendsen, Charles B. Dodson, Gianna Short, Ronald L. Rainey, Heather A. Snell

The purpose of this paper is to examine credit usage by beginning farmers and ranchers (BFR). BFR credit usage is stratified by location (state) and by socially disadvantaged…

Land tenure and profitability among young farmers and ranchers

Andrew W. Stevens, Karin Wu

The purpose of this article is to investigate how land tenure correlates with measures of profitability among young farmers and ranchers in the United States. The authors…

Management and ownership transfer in small and medium family farms

Renee D. Wiatt, Maria I. Marshall, Ryan Musselman

This study investigated the succession process in small and medium family farms as two distinct but related processes of management transfer and ownership transfer. Past studies…

The landowner role in beginning farmer/rancher land access: predictors of landowners' views of extrafamilial farm transfer to a BFR

Julia C.D. Valliant, Stephanie Dickinson, Yijia Zhang, Lilian Golzarri-Arroyo, James R. Farmer

Beginning farmers and ranchers (BFRs) are more likely to access land through an unrelated landowner than through family. Thus, farm and ranch owners who might transfer their land…

Exploring the adoption of technologies among beginning farmers in the specialty crops industry

Ariana Torres

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the adoption of two categories of agricultural technologies among beginning farmers (10 years or less of experience) operating in the…

The profitability implications of sales through local food markets for beginning farmers and ranchers

Becca B.R. Jablonski, Joleen Hadrich, Allison Bauman, Martha Sullins, Dawn Thilmany

The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 directed the US Secretary of Agriculture to report on the profitability and viability of beginning farmers and ranchers. Many beginning…

Beginning farmers' entry and exit: evidence from county level data

Valentina Hartarska, Denis Nadolnyak, Nisha Sehrawat

This paper identifies factors that affect entry and exit of beginning, young and women farmers and ranchers.