according to the official US government definition about two million farms
operate in the United States, a total that has changed little for more than three decades. However, the US government defines a “farm” as an operation that produced or normally would produce at least $1,000 in gross value of
output per year (O’Donoghue, Hoppe, Banker, and Korb 2009). the tiny threshold
of $1,000 in sales represents an agricultural output of less than two acres of corn,
less than one-half of a milk cow, and less than half of one litter from one mother sow.This inclusive threshold has public relations and political rationales. Farm lobby groups, political officials at the US Department of Agriculture, and elected representatives laud the efforts of “two million American farms” to feed the world or support the rural econom