Hoppe, Robert A.; MacDonald, James M.; Korb, Penni - 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 some respects, exist independently of the farm...