An Overview of Beginning Farms and Farmers

Nigel Key and Greg Lyons

No 301074, Economic Brief from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: Beginning farms (those on which all operators have no more than 10 years of farming experience) operate at a smaller scale, earn less farm income, and have more debt relative to their assets than more established farms. Beginning farm households work more off-farm and have less wealth than established farm households.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Farm Management; Financial Economics; Land Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23
Date: 2019-09-26
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.301074

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