Families with Farm Income, Their Income, Income Distribution, and Income Sources

摘要

The report utilizes data from the Farm Family Living Expenditures Survey of 1973 on the income of farm families and on the sources of their income. Nationally, total income for farm families is becoming more equally distributed. Low-farm income or even negative farm income does not necessarily indicate a low family income because over 90 percent of the families had income from at least one other source in addition to farming. Sixty percent received income from off-farm employment. Most low-income farm families were concentrated in the South, particularly in the Appalachian and Delta region. The Corn Belt also had a sizeable number of families whose income was below the poverty threshold. Together the three regions had 52 percent of the low-income farm families.