How Farm Pay Compares to Industrial Pay in Americ

This is Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.

The farm economy of the United States has changed a lot in the last seventy years. In the nineteen thirties, twenty-five percent of the nation's population lived on farms. Today less than one percent of Americans do.

Yet these numbers do not completely explain the situation for all farmers. Those who have small farms often take other jobs to earn extra income. And farm earnings for large farms grew faster than for small ones.