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Farm Structure: Questions and Answers

Percent of farms using contracts in 2001
Item	Rural residence farms	Intermediate farms	Commercial farms	All farms
Production contracts	*0.5	2.1	15.2	2.4
Marketing contracts	3.2	14.2	29.2	9.1
Either type 1	3.6	16.0	41.7	11.0
1 Either type is less than the sum of marketing and production contract use. The difference is farms using both types.
=RSE is greater than 25 and less than or equal to 50 percent. Relative Standard Error(RSE) = (Standard Error/Estimate)100.
Source: USDA, 2001 Agricultural Resource Management Survey

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