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PAPERBACK price:$50.00 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century Frontiers in Agricultural Research:Food, Health, Environment, and Communities Other Related Titles Publicly Funded Agricultural Research and the Changing Structure of U.S. Agriculture (2002) Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources (BANR) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Appendix D Economic Research Service Farm Typology." Publicly Funded Agricultural Research and the Changing Structure of U.S. Agriculture. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2002. Please select a format: Page 129   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Appendix D Economic Research Service Farm Typology The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service has developed a farm classification to divide U.S. farms into mutually exclusive and more homogeneous groups. The farm typology focuses on “family farms,” or farms organized as proprietorships, partnerships, and family corporations that are not operated by a hired manager. To be complete, however, the typology also considers nonfamily farms. Small Family Farms (annual sales less than $250,000) Limited-resource farms. Any small farm with (1) gross sales of less than $100,000, (2) total farm assets of less than $150,000, and (3) total operator household income of less than $20,000. Limited-resource farmers report farming, a nonfarm occupation, or retirement as their major occupation. Retirement farms. Small farms whose operators report they are retired. (Excludes limited-resource farms operated by retired farmers.) Residential/lifestyle farms. Small farms whose operators report they had a major occupation other than farming. (Excludes limited-resource farms with operators reporting a nonfarm major occupation.) Page 129 Front Matter (R1-R20) Executive Summary (1-15) 1 Introduction (16-29) 2 Structural Impacts of Research (30-51) 3 Structural Implications of Technology Transfer and Adoption (52-68) 4 Structural Impacts of Public Investment in Agricultural Research (69-85) 5 Drivers of Structural Change, Changes in Knowledge and Information, Implications for Policy (86-104) References (105-118) Appendix A Committee to Review the Role of Publicly Funded Agricultural Research on the Structure of U.S. Agriculture (119-121) Appendix B Committee to Review the Role of Publicly Funded Agricultural Research on the Structure of U.S. Agriculture (122-124) Appendix C (125-128) Appendix D Economic Research Service Farm Typology (129-130) About the Authors (131-134) Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications (135-137)

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Publicly Funded Agricultural Research and the Changing Structure of U.S. Agriculture Appendix D Economic Research Service Farm Typology The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service has developed a farm classification to divide U.S. farms into mutually exclusive and more homogeneous groups. The farm typology focuses on “family farms,” or farms organized as proprietorships, partnerships, and family corporations that are not operated by a hired manager. To be complete, however, the typology also considers nonfamily farms. Small Family Farms (annual sales less than $250,000) Limited-resource farms. Any small farm with (1) gross sales of less than $100,000, (2) total farm assets of less than $150,000, and (3) total operator household income of less than $20,000. Limited-resource farmers report farming, a nonfarm occupation, or retirement as their major occupation. Retirement farms. Small farms whose operators report they are retired. (Excludes limited-resource farms operated by retired farmers.) Residential/lifestyle farms. Small farms whose operators report they had a major occupation other than farming. (Excludes limited-resource farms with operators reporting a nonfarm major occupation.)

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Publicly Funded Agricultural Research and the Changing Structure of U.S. Agriculture Farming-occupation/low-sales. Small farms with annual sales of less than $100,000 whose operators report farming as their major occupation. (Excludes limited-resource farms whose operators report farming as their major occupation.) Farming-occupation/high-sales. Small farms with annual sales between $100,000 and $249,999 whose operators report farming as their major occupation. Other Farms Large family farms. Annual sales between $250,000 and $499,999. Very large family farms. Annual sales of $500,000 or more. Nonfamily farms. Farms organized as nonfamily corporations or cooperatives, as well as farms operated by hired managers.

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