A NOTE ON OFF-FARM INCOME OF FARM FAMILIES IN AUSTRALIA*

Farm Income Variability and the Supply of Off-Farm Labor

If farmers are risk averse, greater farm income variability should increase off-farm labor supply. This effect is confirmed for a sample of Kansas farmers. Off-farm employment of farmers and their spouses is also found to be significantly influenced by farm experience, off-farm work experience, farm size, leverage, efficiency, and farm-specific education. In addition, farm operators and spouses...

Off-Farm Income, Technology Adoption, and Farm Economic Performance

The economic well-being of most U.S. farm households depends on income from both onfarm and off-farm activities. Consequently, for many farm households, economic decisions (including technology adoption and other production decisions) are likely to be shaped by the allocation of managerial time among such activities. While time allocation decisions are usually not measured directly, we observe ...

wind farm impact on generation adequacy in power systems

در سال های اخیر به دلیل افزایش دمای متوسط کره زمین، بشر به دنبال روش های جایگزین برای تامین توان الکتریکی مورد نیاز خود بوده و همچنین در اکثر نقاط جهان سوزاندن سوخت های فسیلی در نیروگاه های حرارتی به عنوان مهم ترین روش تولید توان الکتریکی مطرح بوده است. به دلیل توجه به مسایل زیست محیطی، استفاده از منابع انرژی تجدید پذیر در سال های اخیر شدت یافته است. نیروگاه های بادی به عنوان یک منبع تولید توان...

Farm Income Variability and the Supply of Off-Farm Labor by Limited-Resource Farmers

Better Off, But Still on the Farm

This book, valuable but intermittently irritating, appears to have been written by two distinct Bernard E. Rollin personalities. One of them is Bernard E. Rollin the meliorist philosopher. BER-MP (as I shall henceforth refer to him) became well known with Animal Rights and Human Morality (fIrSt edition 1981, second edition 1992). He is a meliorist rather than an abolitionist inasmuch as he beli...