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.
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The most resounding fact is that 98% of such farms are family-owned and operated.
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.
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.
The Middle Colonie's farms where mainly based on wheat. But they also grew the vitals to grow, as in corn, beans, the basics...
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.
90 % even though most don't list there occupation as farming
They were called plantations, they grew one crop in the plantation.
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These farmers operated farms averaging only $6,x29 in value as compared with an average of rate of tenancy on southern farms of that size is relatively high.