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peer-reviewed research article

Coming: More corporate farms in California

authors

Hoy F. Carman, U.C., Davis

publication information

California Agriculture 34(1):9-10. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v034n01p9. January 1980.

author affiliations

Hoy F. Carman is Professor of Agricultural Economics, U.C., Davis;

abstract

Corporate farming, viewed by some as a threat to the family farm, is likely to increase in California, encouraged by 1979 tax rate changes which permit farmers to use tax savings from incorporation to finance expansion.