Financing The Agricultural Sector: Future Challenges And Policy Alternatives / Edition 1

by Dean W. Hughes

Overview

This book provides the reader with a perspective on past trends and the current financial situation in agriculture. It points out the controversies in farm credit and tax policies, and describes a framework that can be used in analyzing the costs and benefits of different policy prescriptions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367155131
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	12/07/2020
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 9.12(h) x (d)

About the Author

"Dean W. Hughes is the director of the Thornton Agricultural Finance Institute and teaches agricultural finance at Texas Tech University. Stephen C. Gabriel is a partner in Farm Sector Economics Associates. Peter J. Barry is professor of agricultural finance at the University of Illinois. Michael D. Boehlje is chairman of the department of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Minnesota."

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. A Financial Analysis of the Farm Sector: Sector Trends 3. A Financial Analysis of the Farm Sector: Distributional Characteristics and Nonfarm Comparisons 4. The Capital Markets for Farm Firms 5. Projecting Financial Conditions in the Farm Sector 6. Current and Future Issues in Agricultural Capital Markets 7. Farm Financial Policy 8. Tax Policy in Agriculture 9. Farm Level Effects of Policy Options and Economic Conditions 10. Summary and Conclusions