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Farmland Ownership and Its Impact on the Debt Servicing Capacity Among U.S. Married-Couple Farm Households

Applied Economics and Finance

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Title Farmland Ownership and Its Impact on the Debt Servicing Capacity Among U.S. Married-Couple Farm Households
 
Creator El-Osta, Hisham S.
 
Description Farmland ownership among U.S. farm businesses constitutes the major type of farm tenure arrangements as only about 8 percent of all farms are operated under full rental agreements. This research seeks to discern the impact of full-ownership of farmland, which accounts for nearly two-thirds of how farms are operated, on the debt servicing capacity of married U.S. farm couples. Findings based on data from the 2004-2013 Agricultural Resource Management Survey along with regression procedures indicated a strong and statistically significant positive impact of farmland ownership on the ability of these farm households to service their debt. Increases in unemployment rates and the occurrence of the 2008 economic recession were among the factors that were found with a strong adverse impact on debt servicing capacity.
 
Publisher Redfame Publishing
 
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Date 2016-09-07
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/aef/article/view/1865
10.11114/aef.v3i4.1865
 
Source Applied Economics and Finance; Vol 3, No 4 (2016); 190-206
2332-7308
2332-7294
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/aef/article/view/1865/1929