Kilofarms in The Agricultural Heartland |
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| Authors: | John Fraser Hart Mark B Lindberg |
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| Institution: | 1. Geography, environment, and society, University of Minnesota, , Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455;2. Cartographic lab, University of Minnesota, , Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455 |
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| Abstract: | Kilofarms are farms of 1,000 acres or more. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Census of Agriculture has few tabulations of data by farm size, but geographical analysis suggests some of the characteristics of kilofarms. Their operators are part‐owner farmers. Their land and buildings are worth several millions of dollars, and their gross annual income is well over the $250,000 necessary to provide an acceptable level of living for a contemporary farm family. Kilofarmers concentrate on growing crops of corn and soybeans for cash sale, and they rely on computers and Internet access to help them make marketing decisions. |
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| Keywords: | cash‐grain farmers computers Corn Belt farm size Internet kilofarms “ millionaire” farms part‐owner farmers |
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