Farm Size and the Distribution of Farm Numbers
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Size-of-farm data for 1964 were fitted to the function In Y =In a·bX Results showed that the
percentage distribution of farms by size classes tends to follow the distribution of an inverse
exponential function. Furthermore, empirical size distributions seem to have an underlying
stability across time and geographic areas. These features have several applications, one of which is
prediction of future size distributions of farms. A method of making such a prediction is illustrated
with census data on farm numbers in 1935 and 1964.