Growing Farm Size and the Distribution of Farm Payments

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英文名称：

Growing Farm Size and the Distribution of Farm Payments

作者：

David Banker; James M. MacDonald; Robert A. Hoppe

工作单位：

USDA's Economic Research Service

来源地址：

https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=42917

关键词：

Farm structure;  commodity programs;  farm payments;  farm household income;  farm income;  farm program payments; 

年份：

2006

出版地：

Washington, DC, USA

总页数：

4 pp

语种：

English

摘要：

Crop production is shifting to much larger farms. Since government commodity payments reflect production volumes for program commodities, payments are also shifting to larger farms. In turn, the operators of very large farms have substantially higher household incomes than other farm households, and as a result government commodity payments are also shifting to much higher-income households. Since the changes in farm structure appear to be ongoing, commodity payments will likely, under current policies, continue to shift to higher income households. This brief uses 2003 Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) data to detail the shifts.