Limited Resource Farmers' Productivity: Some Evidence from Georgia

Nelson, Mack C.; Brown, Nathaniel B.; Toomer, L.F.

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“…Many of these farmers are characterized by low-income; limited access to capital, labor, and equipment; and smaller than average farm size. Other social, cultural, and language factors include: lack of awareness of governmental programs, limited management skills, lower levels of formal education, and riskaverse behavior (Molnar, Bitto, and Brant, 2001;Nelson, Brown, and Toomer, 1991).…”

Section: Small and Limited-resource Farmers And Conservation Practicementioning

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Limited Access to Conservation: Limited-Resource Farmer Participation in the Conservation Security Program in the Southeast

Bergtold

Molnar

2010

J. Agric. Appl. Econ.

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The paper examines the joint adoption of conservation tillage, crop rotations, and soil testing by small and limited-resource farmers in the Southeast. The objectives are to determine the potential eligibility of small farmers for the Conservation Security Program, examine socioeconomic factors affecting adoption, and assess the interdependence between adopting different conservation practices. Results indicate that conservation management, ethnicity, and farm characteristics affect practice adoption. Of the producers surveyed in the study, 7% meet Conservation Security Program eligibility requirements, while the other 93% have less than a 20% likelihood of adopting the needed practices to qualify.

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Section: Small and Limited-resource Farmers And Conservation Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Limited Access to Conservation: Limited-Resource Farmer Participation in the Conservation Security Program in the Southeast

Bergtold

Molnar

2010

J. Agric. Appl. Econ.

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“…The main reason for sharecropping in the Southeastern peanut region is to obtain economy of size (M.Lamb, personal communication). LRFs tend to be overcapitalized, with machine sizes too large for the number of acres farmed (Nelson et al, 1991). A sharecropping contract may enable a LRF to improve the efficiency of mechanization by increasing the amount of land farmed.…”

Section: Reasons For Sharecropping and Two Hypotheses On Input Applicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is the average size of a commercial peanut farm in Georgia and Southeast Alabama, which is a reasonable upper limit for sharecroppers to aspire to operate in order to gain economy of size (Nelson et al, 1991). Equation 7 requires that corn and peanut acreage be equal, consistent with a crop rotation system in which the two crops alternate on the same field in subsequent years so that half of the acreage on the farm is in each crop in any year.…”

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“…In our study, sharecroppers are defined as those farmers who own capital and lease land by paying a share of the crop output to the landowners. The sharecroppers in the study area are characterized as traditional small, part-time farmers with small cash reserves, gross annual sales less than or equal to $40,000 and low rates of high school completion, compared with commercial farmers (Nelson et al, 1991). 1 In sharecropping, landlords and sharecroppers share inputs and outputs, the ratios of which depend on several factors such as productivity of the land and bargaining power of both landowner and sharecroppers (Barry et al 2000;Paudel et al 1998).…”

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“…1 In sharecropping, landlords and sharecroppers share inputs and outputs, the ratios of which depend on several factors such as productivity of the land and bargaining power of both landowner and sharecroppers (Barry et al 2000;Paudel et al 1998). Nelson et al (1991) determined in a survey of South Georgia farmers that low resource farmers including sharecroppers use fertilizer more extensively than commercial farmers, and tend to overuse fertilizer compared with efficient levels. Low Resources Farmers (LRF) in this region use fertilizer least efficiently of all variable inputs.…”

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2000

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Peanut and corn are two major crops in the tri-state area of the Southeast US, an area encompassing North Florida, Southwest Georgia, and Southeast Alabama. Sharecroppers in this region apply higher amount of input in crop production than the average farmers. We analyzed the behavior of sharecroppers in this region with regard to their fertilizer application decisions. Two hypotheses were formulated and tested based on sharecroppers' fertilizer application decisions: one assuming that sharecroppers are risk averse farmers and the other assuming that sharecroppers are regret minimizers. Our results show that a sharecropper uses different fertilizer treatments when minimizing risk depending on risk perspective and desired income. Sharecroppers who apply more fertilizer to obtain a desired level of income are regret minimizers where as sharecroppers who apply relatively low fertilizer are risk minimizer. At the same desired level of income, a regret minimizer farmer would apply a higher amount of fertilizer than the risk averse farmers. Our analysis revealed that sharecroppers in the Southeast US are regret minimizers as they apply a higher amount of fertilizer than an average farmer on the major crops grown in the region. The result of this study also confirms the result of a previous study in the region which reported that sharecroppers in the region are over capitalized and apply more fertilizer than average farmers.

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Limited Resource Farmers' Productivity: Some Evidence from Georgia

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Limited Access to Conservation: Limited-Resource Farmer Participation in the Conservation Security Program in the Southeast

Limited Access to Conservation: Limited-Resource Farmer Participation in the Conservation Security Program in the Southeast

Effect of risk perspective on fertilizer choice by sharecroppers

A call for justice work in agricultural and applied economics

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