The aim of this study is about the development of the capital stock on Finnish farms. Therefore the subject is closely related to investment behaviour of farmers. Due to structural change the average size of agricultural investment and capital stock have been increasing during previous decade. On the other hand, not all farms choose to enlarge, but part of them are quitting or continue as they were. Thus, large investments are concentrated to a subset of farms. The empirical goal of this study is to investigate what kind of farms do invest? (and hence are among those which shall continue production in the future). Related questions are how well investments can be forecasted by bookkeeping information and what kind of a process defines the...