Characteristics of Women Farm Operators and Their Farms
| dc.creator | Hoppe, Robert | |
| dc.creator | Korb, Penni | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T20:08:55Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T07:04:11Z | |
| dc.description | Over the past three decades, the number of women-operated farms increased substantially. In 2007, women operated 14 percent of all U.S. farms, up from 5 percent in 1978. Women-operated farms increased in all sales classes, including farms with annual sales of $1 million or more. Most women farmers operated very small farms in 2007; about three-fourths of their farms had sales of less than $10,000. A small share of their farms (5 percent), however, sold $100,000 or more in farm products. About half of women-operated farms specialized in grazing livestock—beef cattle, horses, and sheep or goats. In addition to a principal operator, some farms have secondary operators. If both principal and secondary operators are counted, the number of women operators in 2007 expands from 306,200 to nearly 1 million. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.148543 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/148543/files/EIB111.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/148543 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/584124 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/148543 | |
| dc.title | Characteristics of Women Farm Operators and Their Farms | |
| dc.type | Text |