FAMILIES DOMINATE FARM OWNERSHIP: But big farms most profitable

摘要

THE MYTH that the family farm is disappearing and corporate farmers are taking their place has been dispelled by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE). In its latest Farm Surveys Report, ABARE says, farm families operated 99.6% of all broadacre and dairy farms in 1994-95. Corporate farms accounted for just 0,4% of farms.