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"The twenty first edition of The Agricultural Notebook has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the considerable changes in agricultural and rural practices and policies which have taken place since publication of the previous edition 15 years ago. New chapters will address politics, wildlife, the fundamentals of agricultural production and the modern techniques critical to the industry, with separate chapters on sheep, goats, ruminants, monogastrics and resource management. Since the first edition was compiled by Primrose McConnell in 1883, The Agricultural Notebook has become established as the standard work of reference for all those in the farming industry. With each edition it has evolved and changed in such a way as to provide agricultural scientists, students of agriculture and related subjects, farmers, farm managers and land agents with an abundance of current information on all aspects of the business of farming. The Agricultural Notebook is an essential purchase for all students of agriculture, countryside, and rural studies. Professionals such as farmers, land agents, agricultural scientists, advisers, suppliers to the agriculture industry and all those with a connection and interest in the agricultural community will find a huge wealth of information within the book's covers. All libraries within universities, colleges and research establishments where agricultural and rural sciences are studied and taught should have multiple copies of this important new edition on their shelves"--

AbstractThis article considers the implications of the wider systemic shift from modernity to late modernity for the process of intergenerational farm transfer. The article argues that the shift from the collective to the individual, indicative of late modern society, is particularly pertinent in the context of intergenerational transfer, which has long been rooted in collective thinking. Drawing on the perspectives of incumbent farmers and potential successors, the article utilizes results from semistructured interviews with 29 farmers and 19 potential successors in Devon, England. Using a thematic analysis, the article provides a nuanced understanding of the impact of the systemic shift and the associated emphasis on the individual on successor identification. Although the article reaffirms understanding of successor creation as a collective process, determined by factors such as gender and birth order, it also identifies an emergent cohort of younger potential successors, for whom succession was the outcome of an evaluation of farming as a career. It concludes that, within the case study area, modernization is changing the way in which farm children are identifying themselves as "the successor." The article suggests how this increasingly judicious approach to succession leaves reproduction of the family farm increasingly vulnerable to negative externalities.

AbstractThis short article responds to Fischer and Burton's article, 'Understanding farm succession as socially constructed endogenous cycles', featured in the last issue of Sociologia Ruralis. Broadly the article commends the concept of 'socially constructed endogenous cycles' as a way of conceptualising successor creation, but challenges some of Fischer and Burton's claims, with the aim of stimulating further discussion and research into intergenerational farm transfer. Drawing on a range of empirical research, the article explores the reality of the 'recruitment crisis' that Fischer and Burton suggest is occurring, and subsequently asks, is there an optimum level of familial succession? The article continues by exploring some of the other claims made by Fischer and Burton, including the impact of mechanisation on farm children's involvement in farm work, and challenges their suggestion that farmers are currently marginalised in society.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Farmers and Brexit: setting the scene -- Accounting for the neglect of the social -- Sources -- SW Farm Survey -- SIP Baseline Survey -- Family farming research for the Prince's Countryside Fund -- References -- 2 Sustainable agriculture in a world of food security -- Introduction -- Farming and the rise of food security: demand-side context -- Farming and the rise of food security: supply-side context -- Soil nutrients -- Soils -- Competition for land -- Climate change -- Responding to the 'perfect storm': from sustainable agriculture to sustainable intensification -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Farming trends and agricultural restructuring -- Introduction -- Farm numbers, types and size -- Farm labour -- Farm business income and economic prospects -- Productivity and intensification -- Sources of income -- Changes to the farm business -- Leaving farming -- A note on the limitations of official datasets -- Restructuring, adaptation and resistance to change at the farm level -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Farmers and the market -- Introduction -- The retail revolution -- The public face and service of the retailers -- Controlling the food supply chain -- The regulatory environment -- Continuing growth or retail retrenchment in the 1990s? -- Farmers and the retail revolution -- Responses to multiple retailing: reform, rejection, revolution -- Direct marketing: an old method with a new face -- Box delivery schemes -- Farmers' markets -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 5 Farmers and sustainable intensification -- Introduction -- SI: definitional and conceptual issues

1. Succession and retirement in family farm businesses / Matt Lobely and John R. Baker -- 2. Australian farmers' attitudes toward succession and inheritance / Elaine Barclay, Ian Reeve and Roslyn Foskey -- 3. New patterns of succession in the Australian wool industry / Roger Wilkinson -- 4. Intergenerational farm business succession in Japan / Tomohiro Uchiyama and Ian Whitehead -- 5. Farm succession in Switzerland : from generation to generation / Ruth Rossier -- 6. 'Keeping the name on the land' : patrilineal succession in northern Irish family farming / Linda Price and Rachel Conn -- 7. Non-successional entry into UK farming : an examination of two government-supported schemes / Brian Ilbery, Julie Ingram, James Kirwan, Damian Maye and Nick Prince -- 8. So what? / John R. Baker -- 9. Facilitating succession and retirement in US agriculture : the case of Nebraska / Dave Goeller -- 10. Retired farmer : an elusive concept / Joy Kirkpatrick -- 11. Business continuance and succession planning : a New Zealand perspective / Mandi McLeod -- 12. Succession planning in family businesses : consulting and academic perspectives / Peter C. Leach -- 13. From generation to generation : drawing the threads together / Ian Whitehead, Matt Lobely and John R. Baker.

"Now as we face major questions about how we use land and the impact of our land use on the global environment, farming once again faces a challenging and uncertain future. This book draws on the experiences of farmers in Australia, New Zealand, North America, Japan and the EU to examine the special features of family farms and, in particular, the tradition of succession which has enabled them to continue to have such a strong presence in the world today"--Provided by publisher.

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Moreno-Pérez, O. M. and Lobley, M. (2015), The Morphology of Multiple Household Family Farms. Sociologia Ruralis, 55: 125–149, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/soru.12062. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. ; This article endeavours to illuminate a largely underexplored area of family farming research; that of multiple-household arrangements at the farm level. The investigation focused on an agricultural area of south-east Spain where family-based farms specialising in export-oriented horticulture have undergone profound transformations over the last decades. In-depth interviews were undertaken with 20 informants complemented by a face-to-face survey of 135 farmers. A closer look at the farm family interplay unveiled the existence of holdings jointly managed by several kindred households. These farm governance structures are associated with a greater ability to cope with the managerial complexity of this agricultural system and provide a sound basis for farm expansion, thus emerging as an important element of farm differentiation. Micro-level information allowed us to explore, for the first time, the variable morphology of the organisational forms that were often found to lie behind different legal arrangements and their role in the intergenerational transfer process. These findings have far-reaching implications for research, since they take us considerably beyond the picture portrayed by conventional agricultural statistics and challenge many of the traditional assumptions and categories of the existing literature on family farming. ; Moreno Pérez, OM.; Lobley, M. (2015). The morphology of multiple household family farms. Sociologia Ruralis. 55(2):125-149. doi:10.1111/soru.12062 ; S ; 125 ; 149 ; 55 ; 2 ; Allen , R. G. Harris 2005 What we know about the demographics of U.S. farm operators ; Arnalte-Alegre, E. (2014). Comentario: Una ...

AbstractThis article endeavours to illuminate a largely underexplored area of family farming research; that of multiple‐household arrangements at the farm level. The investigation focused on an agricultural area of south‐east Spain where family‐based farms specialising in export‐oriented horticulture have undergone profound transformations over the last decades. In‐depth interviews were undertaken with 20 informants complemented by a face‐to‐face survey of 135 farmers. A closer look at the farm–family interplay unveiled the existence of holdings jointly managed by several kindred households. These farm governance structures are associated with a greater ability to cope with the managerial complexity of this agricultural system and provide a sound basis for farm expansion, thus emerging as an important element of farm differentiation. Micro‐level information allowed us to explore, for the first time, the variable morphology of the organisational forms that were often found to lie behind different legal arrangements and their role in the intergenerational transfer process. These findings have far‐reaching implications for research, since they take us considerably beyond the picture portrayed by conventional agricultural statistics and challenge many of the traditional assumptions and categories of the existing literature on family farming.

Reconciling environmental objectives for land use with the need to produce more food is a prominent concern of scientific and policy discourses on sustainable agriculture. The idea of sustainable intensification has emerged as one prominent framing of this challenge. In this paper we elaborate this idea from an ecosystem services perspective to natural resource management, with particular reference to developments in the UK. The paper considers the general origins and attributes of the perspective and how the challenge of sustainable intensification would be conceptualized and approached through it. While efforts to link analysis of ecosystem services to policy development and delivery in the UK are revealed as consistent with prevailing, and often long standing, approaches to sustainable agriculture, the marketization of environmental assets is highlighted as a distinguishing feature of current policy applications. The character and limitations of this facet of the ecosystem services agenda are discussed. The need to animate ecological issues of sustainable intensification through frames of reference other than those of economic valuation is emphasized. Adapted from the source document.