Title

Percent

Bar chart with 7 groups with 2 items per group.

Group 1, 1900.
Item 1, Farms 17.1.
Item 2, Land in farms 43.1.
Group 2, 1940.
Item 1, Farms 11.6.
Item 2, Land in farms 39.7.
Group 3, 1969.
Item 1, Farms 8.1.
Item 2, Land in farms 33.6.
Group 4, 1987.
Item 1, Farms 3.6.
Item 2, Land in farms 21.9.
Group 5, 1992.
Item 1, Farms 3.2.
Item 2, Land in farms 19.6.
Group 6, 1997.
Item 1, Farms 2.4.
Item 2, Land in farms 14.5.
Group 7, 2002.
Item 1, Farms 1.6.
Item 2, Land in farms 11.2.

Note: The share of sales in 1900, 1949, and 1969 was calculated by summing sales by sales class from census publications and totaled slightly more than 50 percent. The share of sales in 1987, 1992, 1997, and 2002 was calculated from farm-level data and therefore totaled exactly 50 percent.
Source: USDA, ERS, compiled from census of agriculture data and Peterson and Brooks (1993).

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