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> From: "D.B.Sullivan" <Buffalob@mhtc.net>
> To: <Ecol-Econ@csf.colorado.edu>
> Subject: Family Farm Stats
> USDA
>
> June 1, 1997 Farm Stats for US by Economic Sales Class
>
> Gross sale < $10,000 50.2 % of Farms 10.7% of land Average Size
> 60- 172 acres
> Gross Sales < $100,000 32.9 % of Farms 35.0% of land Average Size
> 268-760 acres
> Gross Sales > $100,000 16.9 % of Farms 54.3% of land Average Size
> 1170- 2726 acres
>
> Total Average size of Farm Size : 470 acres
> In other words 83.1 % of farms and 45.7 % land is controlled by the fam=
ily
> unit.
> 16.9 % of farms & 54.3 % land is corporate farmin=
g
> Assuming you use gross sales as your model
>
> The old definition of a family farm was ; How much land a farmer could
> plow in a day ? Technology has changed that !!!!
> ..
>
>
> On the topic of corporate farms, I'm curious as to exactly how
> "corporate" farms are defined, and how that definition may differ from =
the
> typical impression of non-family oriented, mass production farming. =
>
>
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> to Melissa Anne Stine <mstine@wam.umd.edu>
> To: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu
> Subject: Re: Role of Factory Farms
>
> You wrote:
> On the topic of corporate farms, I'm curious as to exactly how
> "corporate" farms are defined, and how that definition may differ from =
the
> typical impression of non-family oriented, mass production farming. =
> <snip>
>
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