Technical change in agriculture 1935 - 85, door dr. Paul Brassley (University of Exeter), 2013
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Technical change in agriculture 1935 - 85, door dr. Paul Brassley (University of Exeter), 2013
- 1. Technical change in agriculture 1935-85: using Farm Management Survey data from south-west England to explore processes of technical change Paul Brassley University of Exeter
- 2. Volume of UK agricultural output Growth rate peaked 1945-65
- 3. Output and productivity Federico (2005) C19 agricultural growth by increasing inputs C20 growth by increasing TFP Thirtle et al (2004) TFP growth rates 1953-1984: 1.68% 1984-2000: 0.26%
- 4. The Farm Management Survey Was not designed to explain technical change 4987 fieldbooks entered in dataset
- 5. Dis tribution of fieldbooks 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 F ieldbook Year Numberoffieldbooksinyear F ieldbooks in S P S S dataset
- 6. Methodology For each farm Analyse accounts Farm history Oral history (for survivors)
- 7. Analysing the accounts (2) Year Farm size Grass area Cereal output Other crops output Cattle output Sheep output Dairy output…… Fertiliser costs Pesticide costs Seed costs Concentrate costs Vet costs Labour costs Machinery costs Building costs
- 8. Comparison ratios Index of farm specialisation Output per £100 labour Output per £100 capital Real output per grazing acre Animal output per £100 concentrates Output per £100 total inputs
- 9. Where were the farms?
- 10. Farm sizes gradually increased
- 11. Fewer farms were rented
- 12. The big changes in dairying More milk per cow More milk per acre More milk per farm
- 13. More milk per cow
- 14. More milk per acre
- 15. More milk per farm
- 16. What produced more millk per cow? Breed changes AI Feeds
- 17. Breed changes in England and Wales
- 18. Breed changes in the Far West
- 19. AI
- 21. Increasing use of silage John Coleman – ‘Father made silage in the 1950s … very hard work … all hand work … before the days of buckrakes … it was about 1958 that people started using buckrakes’ Paul Gluyas – ‘Hydraulics transformed materials handling. Hydraulic not hand- draulic’
- 22. And silage quality Paul Gluyas - ‘… a lot more feed value in well-made silage than in well-made hay’ Michael Horrell – ‘ … if you had better quality silage the cow would eat more, and every kilogramme she ate would nourish her more…’
- 23. What produced more milk per acre? More fertilizer Better grass varieties Better grazing management
- 25. Dairy farms used more N than non-dairy farms
- 26. Mixed tenure farms used more Nitrogen
- 27. Grazing management and grass varieties Farm 744 – ‘we bought grass varieties by the advice of the seedsman’ Farm 7/8 – ‘NAAS … gave us advice on certain leys to use’ But no mention of paddocks/electric fencing/forward creep grazing
- 28. How did farmers cope with more cows? Parlours Bulk tanks Cubicles Slurry And specialisation…..
- 29. Farmers began to specialise from the late 1940s/early 1950s 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 Cereal output as a proportion of total output Other crops output as a proportion of total output Horticulture output as a proportion of total output Cattle output as a proportion of total output Sheep output as a proportion of total output Pigs output as a proportion of total output Poultry output as a proportion of total output Dairy output as a proportion of total output
- 30. The importance of specialisation IFS = [(E1/O1) x 100] + 1/n [(O1-E1)/O1 x 100] Average IFS 0.0 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0 60.0 70.0 80.0 90.0 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984
- 31. The main change was the disappearance of pigs and poultry 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 %ofsample Farms with Pigs Farms with Poultry
- 32. Capital inputs also increased Machinery Buildings Capital grants
- 33. Output per £100 of capital invested
- 35. Tractors replaced horses and farms were electrified 0,00% 10,00% 20,00% 30,00% 40,00% 50,00% 60,00% 70,00% 80,00% 90,00% 100,00% 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 Farms with working horses Farms with mains electricity
- 36. Labour use decreased Farm 2/7 (Dorset, 680 acres) 1945 – 19 workers 1984 – 6 workers
- 37. Initial findings – from the whole Devon and Cornwall survey Graph 2: realo/i (1962=100) 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 outputper£100input realo/i Linear (realo/i)
- 38. Conclusions (1) Most dairy farmers made the same changes But at different times Mixed farms specialised These changes were impossible before 1939
- 39. Conclusions (2) How much was due to agricultural policy Inflation Tenure changes The development of knowledge networks