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B796: A Comparison Of Direct Market Users And Nonusers Habits, Acceptance, And Preferences For Direct Marketed Small Farms Horticulture Commodities, Neil C. Buitenhuys, F. Richard King, Alan S. Kezis, Howard W. Kerr
B796: A Comparison Of Direct Market Users And Nonusers Habits, Acceptance, And Preferences For Direct Marketed Small Farms Horticulture Commodities, Neil C. Buitenhuys, F. Richard King, Alan S. Kezis, Howard W. Kerr
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Until recently small scale farming has been considered inefficient and undesirable. Small farmers have found it difficult to compete with large operators in the market place because of their inability to provide a significant quantity of product over an extended period of time to meet the needs of large scale marketing firms. According to the 1978 Census of Agriculture small farms, those with sales under $40,000, account for nearly 76 percent of the farms in Maine. Therefore, a market system has developed which is not amenable to the small farmer who represents a significant segment of Northeast agriculture.
Though the …