Katherine Lacy

Dec 3, 2024 | ers.usda.gov | Katherine Lim |Jonathan McFadden |Noah Miller |Katherine Lacy

American farms represent a diverse set of business operations and farm operators. This annual report describes the characteristics of U.S. farms and ranches with the most recent data from the Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS).

Oct 10, 2024 | ers.usda.gov | Nigel Key |Katherine Lacy |Jessica E. Todd

Feature: Socially Disadvantaged, Beginning, Limited Resource, and Female Farmers and Ranchers Highlights: Nationally, about 9 percent of farms were operated by limited-resource producers from 2017 to 2020, but the share varied by region and sometimes across States within a region.

May 30, 2024 | ers.usda.gov | Katherine Lacy |Nigel Key

Feature: Socially Disadvantaged, Beginning, Limited Resource, and Female Farmers and Ranchers Highlights: Higher shares of socially disadvantaged producers are located in the Plains and Western regions. There also are higher proportions specializing in cattle production and specialty crops. A greater share of non-Hispanic Black farms was at financial risk than Non-Hispanic White farms, according to data on operating profit margins.

Dec 12, 2023 | ers.usda.gov | Christine Whitt |Katherine Lacy |Katherine Lim

American farms represent a diverse set of business operations and farm operators. This annual report describes characteristics of U.S. farms and ranches with the most recent data from the Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS), an annual survey conducted by USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) and USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS).

Nov 9, 2023 | aaea.org | Katherine Lacy |Jonathan McFadden

1 INTRODUCTION Amid ongoing shifts in US consumer preferences for food labels (e.g., local, USDA-certified organic, sustainable), food companies, policymakers, and others have become keenly interested in how changes in messaging impact their economic goals (Kuchler & Restrepo, 2022). The effects of such changes, however, are difficult to predict since consumers can either accept or reject new food-related information in the context of their food purchases.