Family-Size Farms in U.S. Agriculture

Radoje Nikolitch

No 324118, Miscellaneous Publications from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: Family farms and large-scale farming operations continue proportionally almost unchanged in their traditional regional locations. Family farms account for the bulk of farm production in the north-central part of the country. Large-scale farming is, as it always was, the rule in California, Florida, and some other States. Farming in the rest of the country is in between; family farms have a slight majority. For the country as a whole, family farms accounted for 95 percent of all farms and for 63 percent of all farm products sold in 1949. In 1969, these proportions were 95 percent and 62 percent.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management; Labor and Human Capital; Land Economics/Use; Livestock Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47
Date: 1972-02
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.324118

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