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Financing The Agricultural Sector: Future Challenges And Policy Alternatives book cover

1st Edition

Financing The Agricultural Sector Future Challenges And Policy Alternatives

By Dean W. Hughes Copyright 1986
268 Pages
by CRC Press

268 Pages
by CRC Press

270 Pages
by CRC Press
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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.

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

Biography

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.

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