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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 farms Data 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 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Farm typology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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