Carrol Cox wrote:
>Does anyone have any good figures on the farm population of
>the United States? How many "small farmers" are left -- not
>counting those whose primary family income is from regular
>off-farm employment. Also, I'm not sure how to define "small
>farmer." Does this category add up to a politically significant
>sector of the population any longer?
"Agricultural" employment, according to the BLS, is about 3.4
million. There's plenty of info on farms in the Statistical Abstract,
<http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html>.
Doug
