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Influences on farmland values in urban Texas counties and the State
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agricultural economic factors were next in prevalence,
ascertain if identified influences were important to
carefully consider land management choices, as resource
changes through the defining the relationships between land
designated agricultural-use land near metropolitan areas.
diversity of related enterprises, its farmland values have
during the 1950's. Prior research sought to explain value
emphasized that land dedicated to agricultural use in the
evaluating previously identified significant land value
explanatory ability on Texas land value data. The scope of
farmland comprised nearly 10 percent of the U.S. aggregated
farmland value. This study sought to further knowledge by
Farmland values have been a highly researched topic for the
followed by farm and nonfarm income factors which were not
generally escaped the scrutiny of review. In 1992, Texas
historically interesting for land values in the United
homogeneous areas of major agricultural states. Although
increased variability between land values and farm income
influences for their importance in Texas. Based on a
investment and consumptive purposes, instead of productive
issues will increasingly impact land value. Agricultural
its investment and consumptive potential, instead of its
land owners should evaluate their land primarily in terms of
literature review, proxy variables were specified to
making a decision to buy or sell land. Land owners must
participants need to ascertain local market conditions before
past several decades. Interest was spurred initially by
represent the influences and were tested for their
States, 1969 through 1994. Urban counties were studied to
Texas is considered an important agricultural state with a
the most often important influences upon land values, General
The results indicate that land supply and demand factors were
the study was selected to reflect years that were considered
urban counties was chiefly valued for its abilities to serve
usually significant to the urban farmland. The study also
values and an assortment of farm sector and nonfarm sector
variables. The foci of the prior studies were mostly rural,
"Major subject: Agricultural Economics".
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Includes bibliographical references: pages 91-95.