{"content":[{"text":"measure is a gross measure, so expenses are netted out. And then for our classification of small \n farms, we break it out further, depending on the principal operator, what they declare is their \n major occupation. So now we'll go over our exact ERS farm typology.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.089121,"width":0.745987,"height":0.055061}},{"text":"So, we start off with small farms, and these are farms that report annual gross revenue less than \n $350,000. As I said before, small farms are then split into two different groups based on what \n they declare as their major occupation. So, for farms that declare farming is not their major \n occupation, we have two groups: we have retirement farmers, or where principal operators report \n that they are retired although they continue to farm on a small scale; we have off-farm \n occupation farmers, where the principal operators report a major occupation other than farming. \n And then our other group where farming is the main occupation. This is as I said, where \n principal operators report farming is the major occupation: we have low-sales farms, with an \n annual gross revenue of less than $150,000; and moderate-sales farms, with annual gross revenue \n between $150,000 and less than $350,000.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.158843,"width":0.7640260000000001,"height":0.177031}},{"text":"And to continue that typology – we have midsize family farms and they have an annual gross \n revenue between $350,000 and less than a million; and then we have our large-scale family \n farms, which includes large family farms with annual gross revenue between $1,000,000 and less \n than $5,000,000; and then very large farms, which have an annual gross revenue of $5,000,000 \n or more; and then we have nonfamily farms and these are farms where the operator or persons \n related to the operator do not own a majority of the business. Nonfamily farms are not just large \n farms operated by publicly held corporations. A common example of a nonfamily farm is a farm \n operated by unrelated business partners. Another example is a farm operated by a hired manager \n on behalf of a landowner. In 2018, 15 percent of nonfamily farms had gross cash farm income of \n a million or more, so the majority of nonfamily farms are either small or midsize farms.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.35051,"width":0.763457,"height":0.177056}},{"text":"With these definitions in mind, we will now look at the findings of the report. We'll start by \n looking at the distribution of farm count, land operated, and value of production using the farm \n typology. So the majority of farms are small family farms, but large-scale farms have the largest \n share of the value of production. Small farms represent 90 percent of all farms, 48 percent of the \n acres operated, but only 21 percent of production. Whereas large-scale family farms represent \n 2.7 percent of farms, but account for the largest share of production at 45.9 percent of production \n on only 19.5 percent of total acres operated. Family farms as a whole represent 98 percent of all \n farms and 88 percent of production.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.542126,"width":0.7617319999999999,"height":0.14218200000000003}},{"text":"Now we look at the distribution of the value of production by farm typology and commodities \n produced. So just as a reminder, the group of small farms has annual gross revenue less than \n $350,000 and this is compressing the retirement off-farm occupation, low-sales, and moderate- \n sales classes; and midsize farms have annual gross revenue of $350,000 to less than $1,000,000; \n and large-scale farms have annual gross revenue of $1,000,000 or more compressing large and \n very large family farms. So here we see that small farms produce 56 percent of poultry \n production, including eggs, and 50 percent of hay production. Midsize and large family farms \n account for the majority of cotton, cash grains, or oil seed production, and large-scale family \n farms also produce the majority of dairy. Nonfamily farms and large-scale farms produce the \n bulk of high-value crops and beef. The large scale and nonfamily beef operations are most likely \n the large feedlot operations.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.698944,"width":0.757876,"height":0.19448}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}