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Off-Farm Income of People Involved in Farming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Edward I. Reinsel
Edward I. Reinsel*
Affiliation:
Farm Production Economics Division, Economic Research Service, USDA, Washington, D. C.
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Two years ago, in his presidential address, Dr. C. E. Bishop told members of the American Agricultural Economics Association that “… our preoccupation with the problems of the farm firm has resulted in little or no attention to problems that are much more important to the majority of the rural population”.

Preoccupation with the farm firm is evident in our traditional approach to the study of incomes of farm people. There is still a tendency to look at the incomes of farm firms rather than at the incomes of people who farm. Present income statistics are oriented to the farm firm in a way that makes it fairly difficult to study the economic well-being of people involved in farming.

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Research Article
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , December 1970 , pp. 115 - 119
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1970

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References

1. Bishop, C. E., “The Urbanization of Rural America: Implications for Agricultural Economics,” J. Farm Econ., 49:99-1008, Dec. 1967.Google Scholar
2. Internal Revenue Service, U. S. Treasury, Business Income Tax Returns, Statistics of Income, 1966, Pub. No. 438, June 1969.Google Scholar
3. Reinsel, Edward I., Farm and Off-Farm Income Reported on Federal Tax Returns, ERS-383, Economic Research Service, USDA, Aug. 1968.Google Scholar