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Farm Structure: Questions and Answers

 

Share of farms and value of production, by farm typology group, 1999  
Large family farms, very large family farms, and nonfamily farms accounted for 68  percent of the value of production  
  
Farms 
Value of
production
Limited-resource 5.8 0.6
Retirement 13.6 1.2
Residential 42.6 6.0
Lower-sales 22.0 8.2
Higher-sales 8.0 15.7
Large 3.5 14.1
Very large 2.7 40.6
Nonfamily farms 1.8 13.7

 

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Updated date: May 16, 2002