Corporate Models of Broadacre Crop Farming: International Experience from Argentina and Ukraine

摘要

Family firms in which family members own and manage most assets and provide much of the labour have prevailed in agriculture for several reasons, including the risks and seasonality of production, the spatial dispersion and diversity of labour tasks,and the need for intimate local knowledge of site and seasonal conditions. Although corporate business models that depend on hired managers and labour have made inroads in some types of agriculture (intensive livestock and horticulture), almost all broadacre crop agriculture in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries is run by family firms.