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peer-reviewed research article

Factors affecting agricultural land prices

authors

B. Delworth Gardner, Giannini Foundation
Carole Frank Nuckton, UC Davis

publication information

California Agriculture 33(1):4-6. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v033n01p4. January 1979.

Summary

The price of American farmland has been propelled sky-high by forces both internal and external to agriculture: farm expansion, urbanization, rural parcelization, foreign investments in U.S. land, conglomerate corporations entering agriculture, vertical integration in the food system, and so on.

author affiliations

B. Delworth Gardner is Professor of Agricultural Economics, Davis, and Director of the Giannini Foundation; Carole Frank Nuckton is Research Associate, agricultural economics, UC, Davis.