February 22, 2013

The Farmer's Exchange - USDA Definition of Farmer Twisted

It seems simple enough. What is a farm? The U.S. Agriculture Department defines it as “any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the year.”

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“In fact, almost 95 percent of all U.S. farms are family owned,” Darren Hudson, the director of the Cotton Economic Research Institute at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas said.