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.
They were called plantations, they grew one crop in the plantation.
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The most resounding fact is that 98% of such farms are 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.
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Yes, California does indeed have farms. California is actually the United States' top agricultural state. There are about 81,700 farms in California that have an average of ~300 acres. Over 60% of California's farms are less than 50 acres in size, and more than 90% of the farms are family owned and operated. More information can be found here: A Look at California Agriculture.
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.
Cornelius Jansen Claassen has written: 'Better tenant farming' -- subject(s): Farm tenancy, Farmers National Company, (Omaha, Neb.), Farms, Omaha Farmers National Company 'Making farms pay' -- subject(s): Cooperative Agriculture, Farms, Landlord and tenant
A tenant farmer, otherwise referred to as a share cropper, farms in exchange for part of the final crop.