Farm operators in the United States operated nearly 1 billion acres of land in 1986. The average farm size was 652 acres. Sixty percent of farms reported debt, with an average of $107,000 per farm at the end of 1986. Farm operators had assets valued at $300,000 per reporting farm, with farm real...

This report presents previously unreported State-level data on the structure and characteristics of irrigated farms in Arkansas, Louisiana, Florida, and the 17 Western States, which together account for 93 percent of all irrigated acres in the Nation. Irrigated farms produce about 30 percent of...

The Bureau of Reclamation (BuRec) has been instrumental in developing the western river basins for irrigation water supplies and other purposes. In the last decade, the BuRec has not initiated any new water developme~t projects, opting instead to complete and manage existing projects. Although...

U.S. rice millers and repackagers distributed 38.3 million hundredweight (cwt) of rice in marketing year 1986/87 for three domestic uses: direct food, processed foods, and beer. This figure represents a 13.8-percent increase over shipments in 1984/85, the previous survey year. Between 45 and 50...