Large-Scale Commercial Farming in South East England, 1941, 1978, 1981 and 1998-1999

The overall aim of the research was to assess the influence of changes in agricultural policy and regulation on those farms which, during the productivist era, their operators had successfully navigated to a position of dominance in the industry. Four specific objectives arose from this broad aim, which sought to examine large-scale commercial farming overall and to track development and succession on individual matched farms:<br> to investigate how farms, which were relatively large in 1977, subsequently developed during the period of agricultural policy adjustment in the 1980s/1990s;<br> to examine the dynamics of agricultural production systems in relation to the development of large-scale farm businesses between 1941 and the late 1990s;<br> to investigate the opinions and responses of these large-scale farmers to agricultural policy adjustment with the intention of establishing their level of engagement with post-productivity policy measures;<br> to contribute to the development of large-scale farm businesses in the light of the post-productivist transition model of farm business adjustment and agri-environmental change.<br> The data file for 1978 and 1981 for this study contains a subset of the variables from part of the dataset 'Labour and Machinery on Large Arable Farms, 1978-1980', held at the UK Data Archive under SN:1872.

本研究的总体目标为评估农业政策与法规变动，对生产主义时代（productivist era）中经营者已成功跻身行业主导地位的农场所产生的影响。基于这一总体目标，本研究确立四项具体研究任务，旨在全面审视大型商业化农业，并追踪配对个体农场的发展与传承路径：<br>其一，探究1977年已具备一定规模的农场，在20世纪80至90年代农业政策调整阶段的后续发展轨迹；<br>其二，分析1941年至20世纪90年代末，农业生产系统的动态变化与大型农场经营主体发展之间的关联；<br>其三，调研此类大型农场主对农业政策调整的态度与应对举措，以明确其对后生产主义政策举措（post-productivity policy measures）的参与程度；<br>其四，基于农场经营调整与农业环境变化（agri-environmental change）的后生产主义转型模型，为大型农场经营主体的发展提供理论参考；<br>本研究1978年与1981年的数据集文件，取材自存放于英国数据档案馆（UK Data Archive）、编号为SN:1872的数据集《大型可耕地农场劳动力与机具（1978-1980）》（Labour and Machinery on Large Arable Farms, 1978-1980）的部分变量子集。