Hoppe, Robert A.; MacDonald, James M.; Korb, Penelope J. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2010
Ninety-one percent of U.S. farms are classified as small—gross cash farm income (GCFI) of less than $250,000. About 60 … percent of these small farms are very small, generating GCFI of less than $10,000. These very small noncommercial farms, in … remaining small farms—small commercial farms—account for most small-farm production. Overall farm production, however, continues …