Exploring the relationship between farm size and productivity: Evidence from the Australian grains industry
By Yu Sheng, W. Chancellor. Food Policy, 2019
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Abstract The effect of farm size on productivity remains to be one of the longest standing debates in the agricultural development literature. In this paper, we use farm level data for the Australian grains industry from 1989 to 2004 to investigate the relationship between farm size and total factor productivity and its potential determinants. We show that a positive farm-size productivity relationship could be linked to farmer capital choice. In particular, the productivity advantage of larger farms is likely to diminish as farms use contract services to replace self–owned capital, suggesting that the hire of capital services (hereafter ‘capital outsourcing’) may lift the productivity level of small farms compared to their larger counterparts.
Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science
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- Perceptions of the Fourth Agricultural Revolution: What’s In, What’s Out, and What Consequences are Anticipated? (2020, background): “Technological advancements may favour the already powerful, such as larger farm businesses over small family farms who have less capacity to invest in new technology (Rose et al. 2016; Sheng and Chancellor 2019; van der Burg et al. 2019; Stringer et al. 2020).”