Abstract
Farm sustainability is embodied in a concern for intergenerational equity. It is influenced by the contemporary material and social context of the farm and by its history. The evolution of a modern, progressive Pennsylvania dairy farm from ca. 1950 to 1986 was detemined during interviews with the farmer. The buildings and structures of the farmstead were indicators of the changes and could be linked to other less readily apparent changes on the farm. Survival of the farm relative to neighboring farms may be related to the rapid changes in the scale of various farm attributes that reflected the outcomes of the farmer's management decisions. Successful intergenerational transfer of the rapidly evolving farm may be attributed to both the competitive advantage of the technology used and the associated evolutionary path of the farm. But, the rate of change on this farm will be difficult to sustain indefinitely. Since decisions regarding farm sustainability reflect more than just the technology used in agricu...
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