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Re: Role of Factory Farms
From: "D.B.Sullivan" <Buffalob@mhtc.net>
To: <Ecol-Econ@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: Family Farm Stats
USDA
June 1, 1997 Farm Stats for US by Economic Sales Class
Gross sale < $10,000 50.2 % of Farms 10.7% of land Average Size
60- 172 acres
Gross Sales < $100,000 32.9 % of Farms 35.0% of land Average Size
268-760 acres
Gross Sales > $100,000 16.9 % of Farms 54.3% of land Average Size
1170- 2726 acres
Total Average size of Farm Size : 470 acres
In other words 83.1 % of farms and 45.7 % land is controlled by the family
unit.
16.9 % of farms & 54.3 % land is corporate farming
Assuming you use gross sales as your model
The old definition of a family farm was ; How much land a farmer could
plow in a day ? Technology has changed that !!!!
..
On the topic of corporate farms, I'm curious as to exactly how
"corporate" farms are defined, and how that definition may differ from the
typical impression of non-family oriented, mass production farming.
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to Melissa Anne Stine <mstine@wam.umd.edu>
To: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu
Subject: Re: Role of Factory Farms
You wrote:
On the topic of corporate farms, I'm curious as to exactly how
"corporate" farms are defined, and how that definition may differ from the
typical impression of non-family oriented, mass production farming.
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