Times are changing on U.S. farms.(2002)

Publication: On The Plate

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The release of preliminary results of the 2002 agricultural census shows that the U.S. farming landscape is changing. The demographic data shows that diversity is increasing among farm operators and that the number of women as farmers is growing fast.

Women represented 27.2 percent of agricultural producers in 2002 an increase of 12.6 percent from 1997. The...

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