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Information and Farm Policy - USDA
EconomicInformation BulletinNumber 3 United StatesDepartmentof AgricultureEconomicResearchServiceCaroly n Dimitri, Anne Effland, and Neilson ConklinElectronicReportThe 20th CenturyTransformation Agricultureand Farm PolicyUnited StatesDepartmentof Report from the Economic Research ServiceEconomicInformationBulletinNumber 3 The 20th CenturyTransformation of agriculture and Farm PolicyCarolyn Dimitri, Anne Effland, and Neilson ConklinJune 2005 AbstractThe structure of farms, farm households, and the rural communities in which theyexist has evolved markedly over the last century. Historical data on a range offarm structure variables including the value of agricultural production,commodity specialization, farming-dependent counties, and off-farm work offera perspective on the long-term forces that have helped shape the structure of agri-culture and rural life over the past century. These forces include productivitygrowth, the increasing importance of national and global markets, and the risinginfluence of consumers on agricultural production.
declined (fig. 1), as did agriculture’s central role in the rural economy; while farming-dependent counties once comprised most of the rural economy, only 20 percent of nonmetro counties were considered farming-dependent in 2000 (fig. 2). The altered role of farming in the overall economy reflects changes at the farm and farm household level.
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