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What percent of farms in the US are family owned and operated?
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∙ 12y ago
90 % even though most don't list there occupation as farming
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How many of Canada's farms are family owned and operated?
1%
Facts about corporate farms?
The most resounding fact is that 98% of such farms are family-owned and operated.
What percent of current US farms are operated by individuals or family owned corporations?
Approximately 90%, though less than half of those list "farming" as their primary occupation.
Compared with family farming corporate farming is?
Still a family farm, despite the size. Here's a fascinating statistic that most don't realize: According to the EPA, 87% of all farms are individually or family-owned and operated. Corporate farms make up 4% of those farms, and only 1% of such corporate farms are solely owned and operated by other-cooperative, estates, trusts, etc. Another source (from the book Compassion by the Pound) states that the number of farms that are corporations themselves are family-owned and operated. Many, if not all such farms started small as the quaint, romantic-type farm many think of today into such large corporations.
Who or what were family farms sold to after 1980?
Family farms which have not been passed down to succeeding generations have primarily been sold to other family farmers, typically their neighbors. This is why over 98% of all farms in the US are still family owned and operated.
Large farms owned and operate by peasants was formed by who?
Collective farms are a type of farm that are owned and operated as a joint enterprise by peasants. They are also known as communal farms.
Soviet farms were either collective farms or?
either state farms, consumer farms, corporate owned farms, or family owned farms
Large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group?
Collective
Why are dirty farms largly family owned and operated?
Because that's what they chose to be. They don't want to go corporate or anything like that, they'd rather keep it in the family and such.
What is the issue between commercial farms and family farms?
Funny thing that many people don't realize is that commercial farms and family farms are one and the same. Thus, there really is no issue between them. In the US at least 97% of all farms are family farms. What most people consider to be a "corporate farm" (a farm which is owned and operated by unrelated members or a parent corporation) makes up approximately 0.3% of all US farms.
How did the diverse middle colonies develop and thrive?
family owned farms
What is a corporate farm?
It is farm that has had the "corporate" business label added to it due to legal and accounting benefits that the owners wish to take advantage of. It doesn't mean that it's a large operation nor that it is not family-owned; around 98% of all such farms are family-owned and operated.
