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Diverse Family Farms Are Important to U.S. Agriculture

July 20, 2017 Bob Hoppe, Economic Research Service

Family farms remain an essential feature of agriculture in the United States. Family farms make up 99 percent of America’s 2.1 million farms and 89 percent of agricultural production. Most farms in the United States are small: 90 percent are small family farms that operate nearly half of America’s...

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