Family farm

This definition is the following: “Family Farming is a means of organizing agricultural, forestry, fisheries, pastoral and aquaculture production which is managed and operated by a family and predominantly reliant on family labour, both women's and men's.

In fact, 97 percent of all U.S. farms are family-owned. Food equals family – 97 percent of the 2.1 million farms in the United States are family-owned operations. Small business matters – 88 percent of all U.S. farms are small family farms.

8 Steps to Starting a Farm from the Ground Up

1. Choose Something to Produce. ...
2. Learn the Ins and Outs of Your Product. ...
3. Figure Out Your Finances. ...
4. Purchase Your Property. ...
5. Strategize and Prepare. ...
6. Implement Your Farming Business Plan. ...
7. Develop Your Product. ...
8. Market Your Products.

USDA classifies family farms as “any farm organized as a sole proprietorship, partnership, or family corporation. Family farms exclude farms organized as nonfamily corporations or cooperatives, as well as farms with hired managers”.

Nonfamily farms.. The farm typology focuses primarily on the family farm, or any farm where the majority of the business is owned by an operator and individuals related to the operator, including relatives who do not live in the operator's household.