Although the number of U S farms ,has declined substantially over the past four decades, the' number of farmland owners and the proportion of rented farmland have remained relatively constant In 1978, there were,an estimated 39 million farmland owners, but.fewer than 2 5 million farm operators...

Size-of-farm data for 1964 were fitted to the function In Y =In a�bX Results showed that the percentage distribution of farms by size classes tends to follow the distribution of an inverse exponential function. Furthermore, empirical size distributions seem to have an underlying stability...