USDA Report Identifies Characteristics of Beginning Farm Businesses that Survive

USDA Economic Research Service utilized data from the 2022 Census of Agriculture to identify characteristics associated with business survival in beginning farm businesses. The report Beginning Farmer and Rancher Operations: Characteristics Associated With Business Survival compares the characteristics of business operations that survived from 2012 to 2022 to those that did not. The analysis identifies which farm and operator characteristics were correlated with farm business survival: 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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