IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/udelrr/15816.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

The Farm Sector Of Delaware Agriculture: Changes From 1982 - 1997

Author

Listed:
  • Hastings, Steven E.
  • Maher, Sharon E.
  • Acuff, Peter Z.

Abstract

Agriculture contains a vast array of economic activities to produce and provide food, fiber and related products and services. These economic activities can be divided into three sectors: the farm sector, agribusiness and the public sector. Using data from the 1982 and 1997 Censuses of Agriculture, this bulletin documents changes in the farm sector of Delaware agriculture over the 1982 - 1997 time period. It is an update to the Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin #503, The Farm Sector of Delaware Agriculture: Trends from 1982 - 1992 (Tytus, Hastings and Cole, 1995). Overall, the analysis finds that the farm sector of Delaware agriculture continues to change. Reasons for the change remain the same as they have been for several decades: continued population growth, emerging technologies, evolving and waning demand for agricultural products, fluctuating domestic and international markets, changing consumer preferences, economic conditions both locally and nationally, increasing environmental concerns and growing competition for critical resources, such as land and water. These factors have affected the farm sector of Delaware throughout the last century and will continue to influence in into the 21st century.

Suggested Citation

  • Hastings, Steven E. & Maher, Sharon E. & Acuff, Peter Z., 2002. "The Farm Sector Of Delaware Agriculture: Changes From 1982 - 1997," Research Reports 15816, University of Delaware, Department of Food and Resource Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:udelrr:15816
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.15816
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/15816/files/rr020005.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.15816?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:udelrr:15816. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/dfudeus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.