Perdue Suggests Small Farms Can't Survive

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9. A majority of the large "corporate" farms are family run enterprises.

A link to data for the state of Wisconsin

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2012/Online_Resources/Typology/typology13_wi.pdf

You'll see that the number and average size, in acres, of non-family farms is less then that of mid-size to very large size family farms. Another interesting fact is that in Wisconsin, there are 167 family run farms that average $5 million or more in sales but only 45 non-family run farms that average $5 million or more in sales.