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Rate of Return; Categorizing farms according to size is tough row to hoe

February 28, 2013

Rate of Return; Categorizing farms according to size is tough row to hoe

It seems simple enough. What is a farm? The U.S. Agriculture Department defines it as "any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the year." "Very large farms" are defined as having gross sales of more than $500,000.