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Family-Size Farms in U.S. Agriculture

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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.

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  • Nikolitch, Radoje, 1972. "Family-Size Farms in U.S. Agriculture," Miscellaneous Publications 324118, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersmp:324118
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.324118
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    2. Marshall Harris, 1969. "Shifts in Entrepreneurial Functions in Agriculture," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 51(3), pages 517-529.
    3. Radoje Nikolitch, 1962. "Family Labor and Technological Advance in Farming," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 44(4), pages 1061-1068.
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