Agricultural Change
Consequences For Southern Farms And Rural Communities

Table of Contents

Preface -- The Shifting Role of Agriculture in the Rural South -- Quality of Life on the Farm -- Social Consequences of the Economic Crisis in Agriculture -- Dilemmas Facing Minority Farm Operators in an Agricultural Crisis -- After Structural Change: Are Part-time or Full-time Farmers Better Off? -- Quality of Life Perceptions and Farm Structure -- The Decline of Agriculture as a Livelihood -- Trends and Dimensions in U.S. Agricultural Structure -- The Disappearing Middle and Other Myths of the Changing Structure of Agriculture -- Entry into Farming: Implications of a Dual Agricultural Structure -- Determinants of Poverty Among Farm Operators in North Carolina -- Factors in the Success and Survival of Smallholders: A North Carolina Case Study -- Empirical Analysis of Farm Labor and Agricultural Structure Relationships -- Community Changes Stemming from the Agricultural Crisis -- Agricultural and Rural Community Interdependencies -- An Assessment of Community Forces and Agricultural Change -- The Changing Structure of Farmland Ownership in the South -- The Impact of Outside Forces -- Macroeconomic Policy and the Structure of Agriculture -- Technological Diffusion: Effects on Productivity, Structure, Firms, and Markets -- The Need to Rethink Agricultural Policy in General and to Perform Some Radical Surgery on Commodity Programs in Particular -- Conclusion: The Future of Farming in the South