This publication presents the national farm income statistics, dating back to 1910. The current USDA income series, at the national level, include estimates of net farm income, net cash income, net business income, net cash-flow, and farm production transactions. In 1980, the U.S. Department of...

The average planted wheat acreage on representative farms in major wheat producing States ranged from 52 acres per farm in Illinois to 458 acres per farm in Montana. Estimates of operator and unpaid labor were similar for small, mid-sized, and large wheat farms, while estimates for part-time...

Trade in agricultural inputs, particularly fertilizer (crude and manufactured), pesticides, farm machinery, and genetic material, has been increasing over the last 25 years. Countries with either natural resources (for example, potash, phosphate rock, natural gas, or sulphur) or well-developed...