Farm typology
Introduction The USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) has developed a '''farm typology''', or farm classification, that divides the 2.1 million U.S. farms into 8 mutually exclusive and relatively homogeneous groups:#limited resource farms#retirement farms#residential/lifestyle farms#farming occupation/lower sales#farming occupation/high sales#large family farms#very large family farms#nonfamily farms.Also, the eight categories can be collapsed into 3:#rural residence farms#intermediate farms#commercial farmsData for 2003 indicate that Commercial farms, those having sales of $250,000 or more annually, constitute 9% of all farms and account for 72% of production. Intermediate farms, constituting 24% of all farms, account for 19% of production. The largest number of farms, characterized as rural residence farms, constitute 68% of all farms and account for 8% of production.
See also *Small farm
References
External links * Updating the ERS Farm Typology U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service