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Agricultural land markets in U.S. urban-fringe counties
| Author: |
Greene, Catherine R.; Barnard, Charles H. |
| Date: |
1988 |
| Periodical: |
Landscape and Urban Planning |
| Abstract: |
A multivariate interaction detection model was used to assign urban-influenced counties into statistically-optimal groups. The groups delineated 3 types of farmland markets within the predefined set of counties. From a set of county-level variables representing farm and non farm factors, the procedure found 3 farm related factors, agricultural sales acre-1, farm income acre-1 and farm size, to be important in explaining the variation in average farmland values among the urban-influenced counties. The results imply a diversity among urban-influenced counties that is not accounted for in aggregate analyses that use a simple dichotomy between rural and urban counties |
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