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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Farm income
  • Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:38:10 -0500

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:32:21 -0500, you wrote:

>A U of M study came out this week stating that the Median Minnesota farm
>income rose from $23,368 in 2001 to $105,431 last year (in 2006 it was
>$60k). This is something like a a 75%increase in one year.

>Dairies net income in our state have nearly doubled. These are pretty
>incredible increases

The averages could well reflect lots of small farms going out of business
and/or being swallowed up by big corporate farms.

You'd need to know the number of farms going into the averages each of the
years to be sure what it represents.

Pat
-- Northern Pennsylvania
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