Brown, W. Mark and Ferguson, Shon and Viju-Miljusevic, Crina
(2020).
Farm Size, Technology Adoption and Agricultural Trade Reform: Evidence from Canada.
Journal of Agricultural Economics. 71
, 676-697
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Abstract
Using detailed census data covering over 30,000 farms in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada, we document the vast and increasing farm size heterogeneity, and analyse the role of farm size in adapting to the removal of an export subsidy in 1995. Consistent with the Alchian-Allen hypothesis, the increase in per-unit trade costs due to the reform was associated with farms of all sizes shifting their production of crops from low value wheat to higher value canola. We find that switching to new labour-saving tillage technologies and away from summerfallow in response to the large negative shock to grain prices caused by the reform varied across the farm size distribution. We develop a theory of heterogenous farms and technology adoption that can explain our findings.
| Authors/Creators: | Brown, W. Mark and Ferguson, Shon and Viju-Miljusevic, Crina | ||||||
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| Title: | Farm Size, Technology Adoption and Agricultural Trade Reform: Evidence from Canada | ||||||
| Series Name/Journal: | Journal of Agricultural Economics | ||||||
| Year of publishing : | 2020 | ||||||
| Volume: | 71 | ||||||
| Page range: | 676-697 | ||||||
| Number of Pages: | 22 | ||||||
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Agricultural Economics Society | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0021-857X | ||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||
| Publication Type: | Research article | ||||||
| Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
| Version: | Published version | ||||||
| Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 | ||||||
| Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
| Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 5 Social Sciences > 502 Economics and Business > Economics | ||||||
| Keywords: | Agricultural trade liberalization, export subsidy, farm size, firm heterogeneity, technical change | ||||||
| URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-105174 | ||||||
| Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-105174 | ||||||
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| ID Code: | 17380 | ||||||
| Faculty: | NJ - Fakulteten för naturresurser och jordbruksvetenskap | ||||||
| Department: | (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Economics | ||||||
| Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
| Deposited On: | 02 Sep 2020 09:42 | ||||||
| Metadata Last Modified: | 15 Jan 2021 19:19 |
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