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Farm Structure: Questions and Answers

 

Share of assets, land owned, and land enrolled in the Conservation Reserve and Wetlands Reserve Programs, by farm typology group, 1999   
Small farms account for most of the assets--including land--owned by farms   
    Assets  
Acres of
land owned 
CRP and
WRP acres 
Limited-resource 1.0 1.1 3.6
Retirement 9.5 8.6 25.6
Residential/lifestye 25.7 19.3 25.1
Lower sales 22.6 26.9 21.2
Higher sales 13.1 18.0 11.2
Large 8.7 9.2 4.3
Very large 11.9 10.1 4.4
Nonfamily farms 7.5 6.9 4.5

 

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Updated date: April 13, 2003