Limited resource farms are most likely to specialize in beef production
- by Nigel Key, Katherine Lacy and Jessica E. Todd
- 10/10/2024
Using data from the 2017–20 Agricultural Resource Management Survey, USDA, Economic Research Service researchers found that limited resource farmers and ranchers differ from operators of other farm types in several ways: They are more likely to be female and to identify as a member of a socially disadvantaged group and less likely to receive Government agricultural payments and to be younger than 65 years old.