Visualizing trends in the structure of U.S. agriculture, 1982 to 1992.
The writers update and extend the measurement of U.S. agristructure offered by Wimberley (1987). Exploratory factor analysis for the years 1982, 1987, and 1992 yielded three dimensions of agristructure: corporate-commercial, farming-firm, and small-farm. Factor-scores used to estimate scales were...
| Published in: | Rural Sociology Vol. 61; pp. 349 - 375 |
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