Market Farming

[Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>]

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
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