Family-Size Farms in U.S. Agriculture

Family farms and large-scale farming operations continue proportionally almost unchanged in their traditional regional locations. Family farms account for the bulk of farm production in the north-central part of the country. Large-scale farming is, as it always was, the rule in California, Florida, and some other States. Farming in the rest of the country is in between; family farms have a slight majority. For the country as a whole, family farms accounted for 95 percent of all farms and for 63 percent of all farm products sold in 1949. In 1969, these proportions were 95 percent and 62 percent