Economics for Agriculture: Food, Farming and the Rural Economy

agricultural land agricultural policy agricultural products Annual assets average Britain British capital gains cent cereals changes Chapter Common Agricultural Policy consumers consumption costs countries countryside crops dairy Dairy Crest decline demand for food Econ economic elasticity employment England and Wales estimates European Community European Size Unit expand expenditure exports factors farm business farm incomes farm products farmers fertiliser figure food chain food industry gross hectares HMSO household important increase inputs investment labour force land prices less livestock London machinery MAFF margin market price Marketing Boards meat milk non-farm Northern Ireland output owner-occupiers part-time period population potatoes product prices profits proportion purchase quantity reduced relative rent result retailers rise rural sector self-sufficiency small farms Statistics structure subsidies sugar supply curve Table technological tenant trade trend UK agriculture United Kingdom University of Reading vacant possession workers Wye College