Assessment of risks and risk reducing strategies of small farm operators in Tennessee.

摘要

mall farms represent an important segment of the agricultural sector and rural communities in the US. They account for 56 % of the total U.S. value of agricultural land and buildings, but account for 91 % of all U.S. farms and more than half of the land in farms. This trend holds true for the State of Tennessee where 93.2 % of the farmers had small scale operations in 2007. Nearly half of Tennessee's land area, or 11.8 million acres, is in farmland, and there are more than 91,000 farms in the state. Tennessee small farms generate more than