Off-farm employment and reasons for entering farming as determinants of production enterprise selection in US agriculture

Business & Economics

• Off-farm Employment 91%
• Farming 62%
• Agriculture 47%
• Farm Program Payments 45%
• United States of America 25%
• Farmers 20%
• Resource Management 18%
• Tobit Model 15%
• Policy Development 14%
• Government 14%
• Lifestyle 11%
• Demographics 11%

Agriculture & Biology

• off-farm employment 100%
• farming systems 52%
• agriculture 46%
• farm programs 41%
• Agricultural Resource Management Survey 23%
• development policy 17%
• farmers 17%
• USDA 13%
• lifestyle 12%
• demographic statistics 11%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Agriculture 73%
• Farms 72%
• Government Programs 32%
• Farmers 24%
• United States Department of Agriculture 15%
• Policy Making 12%
• Life Style 8%
• Demography 6%