Do CAP direct payments stabilise farm income? Empirical evidences from a constant sample of Italian farms

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 8 Analysis of trends in farm income (OLS linear trends)

		Trends in farm income^a
		Strictly positive		Negative		Subtotal
		Farms	%	Farms	%	Farms	%	Total
Types of farming (TF):	TF
Specialist field crops	1	42	72.4 %	16	27.6 %	58	10.2 %	571
Specialist horticulture	2	35	81.4 %	8	18.6 %	43	15.6 %	276
Specialist permanent crops	3	49	79.0 %	13	21.0 %	62	8.7 %	715
Specialist grazing livestock	4	42	56.8 %	32	43.2 %	74	15.0 %	492
Specialist granivore	5	6	60.0 %	4	40.0 %	10	11.9 %	84
Mixed cropping	6	11	100.0 %	0	0.0 %	11	6.8 %	161
Mixed livestock and Mixed crops-livestock	7	11	78.6 %	3	21.4 %	14	13.6 %	103
Total		196	72.1 %	76	28 %	272	11 %	2402

Source: Own elaborations on a constant sample of the Italian FADN farms, years 2003–2012
^aR2 > 0.6 and trend coefficient significantly different from zero at 5 %