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USDA RELEASES BEGINNING FARMER AND RANCHER OPERATIONS SURVIVAL REPORT
Apr. 7, 2026
Source: USDA news release
Information from the 2017 Census of Agriculture is used to describe the characteristics of farms and ranches with beginning farmers and ranchers (BFRs), operators having no more than 10 years of farming experience. The report presents data for farms where all operators are BFRs; at least one, but not all operators are BFRs; and those operations with no BFRs.
For each type of operation, the report compares the characteristics of business operations that survived from 2007 to 2017 to those that did not. The analysis identifies which farm and operator characteristics were correlated with farm business survival over this 10-year period. Results suggest that land tenure arrangements, the use of differentiated markets, crop insurance, and government payments are important correlates with business survival for farms operated by beginning farmers and ranchers.
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