Stability of Farm Income and the Role of Nonfarm Income in U.S. Agriculture

Cover Image Ashok K. Mishra and Carmen L. Sandretto

Elsewhere No. (0220), September 2002

An ERS Elsewhere file of a journal article published in Review of Agricultural Economics. This research examines the stability of farm household income over time and the role of off-farm work in stabilizing farm household incomes.

Keywords: agricultural economics, Agricultural Resource Management Study (ARMS), income fluctuation, income stability, farm income, commodity prices, farm household income, nonfarm employment

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Updated date: September 2002

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