Growing Farm Size and the Distribution of Farm Payments

David Banker , James M. MacDonald ; Robert Hoppe

United States Department of Agriculture

关键词: Farm structure;    commodity programs;    farm payments;    farm household income;    farm income;    farm program payments;   

RP-ID  :  EB-6

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: United States Department of Agriculture Publications

【 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.