Statistical Look at Family Farms
The National Agricultural Statistics Service recently took a look at the family farm. Here’s what it found:
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97% of the 2.1 million in the U.S. are family-owned operations
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88% of U.S. farms are small family farms
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58% of direct farm sales to consumers come from small family farms
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64% of vegetable sales and 66% of dairy sales come from 3% of family farms
- 18% of principal operators on family farms started within the last 10 years.