The Economic Determinants of the Number of Minority Farmers in the Southeast Region of the United States, 1969–1997

The primary purpose of this research was to identify and quantify the determinants of the number of minority farmers in the Southeast region of the United States during the time period, 1969 to 1997. A second objective was to determine the potential impacts of globalization and international trade a...

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Published in:The Review of Black political economy 2011-03, Vol.38 (1), p.83-101
Main Authors: Luster, Tonshia, Barkley, Andrew
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Agricultural Policy
Agriculture
Careers
Censuses
Commodity prices
Contracts
Cotton
Econometric models
Economic conditions
Economic Policy
Economics
Economics and Finance
Estimation
Farmers
Farming
Farms
Globalization
International Cooperation
International Trade
Labor Migration
Labour migration
Landowners
Migration
Minorities
Minority owned businesses
Political economy
Political Science
Prices
Racial differentiation
Regression analysis
Rural areas
Rural urban migration
Sociology
Studies
Time series
Trade agreements
U.S.A
United States of America
Wage dynamics
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Summary:The primary purpose of this research was to identify and quantify the determinants of the number of minority farmers in the Southeast region of the United States during the time period, 1969 to 1997. A second objective was to determine the potential impacts of globalization and international trade agreements on the number of minority farmers in the Southeast region of the United States. Regression results indicated that the number of minority farm owners was responsive to the returns to agricultural labor relative to nonfarm labor returns, as well as to cotton and rice prices. An increase in the cotton price was associated with a smaller rate of minority migration out of agriculture in the Southeast region of the United States. To the extent that globalization is likely to result in higher cotton export prices, international agricultural trade agreements are likely to result in decreased movement of minority farmers out of agriculture in the Southeast region of the United States. A third objective was to compare occupational migration rates out of agriculture of minorities with farmers of all races in the Southeast region. The data demonstrate that minority farm owners exhibited distinctly different migration patterns relative to all farm owners during 1969–1997.
ISSN:0034-6446
1936-4814
DOI:10.1007/s12114-010-9082-y