The social reproduction of familiar agriculture is permeated by distinct factors affecting the perspective of continuity of establishments along the generations. In general, these factors can be associated to changes caused by the modernization of agriculture,  crescent proximity between the rural and the urban and the internal dynamic of the familiar group. The effects of those factors denote the farmers’ socio-economic differentiation, the work individualization and superposition of individual values over the collective familiar  ones, aiming at the reproduction of the individual in the place of the familiar group. As a result, the rural migrations have been increasing, especially the youth due to their lack of perspective to follow an agricultural job. Advancing over the succession problem, those changes can have either positive impact, when parents can have the successor, or a negative one, when parents don’t have, among their children, someone willing to follow them. So, while in the previous generations almost all children wanted to remain in the parents’ property as the successor, today, the succession problem assumes other dimension: to insure the permanence of at least one descendent to be the successor. The current succession dynamics  of familiar agriculture has been obtaining a prominent position due to two main points. The first one is related to the fact that most of the establishments allow the permanence of only one descendant to avoid their economic unfeasibility. The second one is focused on the problem that permanence of the descendants in the agricultural activity vary according to the economic and social conditions offered by the farmers. According to such conditions, the farmers can count on their descendants or not to succeed them in the property. Based on these perspectives and more general dimensioning, this thesis had as its goal to analyze the social succession process among the familiar farmers in the municipalities of Pinhal Grande and Dona Francisca, both located within the Fourth Colony of Italian Immigration, in Rio Grande do Sul state. It is observed that, under productive, economic (incomes and investments) and social (understanding of the agricultural occupation and stimuli to descendants to follow the activities) conditions, the farmers assure or can assure the succession or not within their properties, as well as the family estate inheritance in cases of succession or not. Through the analysis of two groups of farmers - with and without succession- it is studied the distinct productive, economic and social conditions to each one of the analyzed groups, being the group with successors the one having the best productive and economic conditions as well as the stimulus to descendants to continue working in agriculture. As to the arrangements related to family estate inheritance, the farmers having succession define the family estate inheritance as a late process and assure the property to descendants, mainly only one son, with different compensation arrangements to the other ones. The farmers without successors have as a solution the selling of the property or its transference to the descendants, trying to assure assistance to parents at the old age.