Table 4. United States and Florida agricultural exports in millions of current 

 dollars for fiscal years 1975 and 1979 (Greene et al . 1980). 



^Figures for 1978. 



Florida's crops and livestock are produced by 35,100 farms and ranches 

 plus a large network of support industries such as transportation, marketing, 

 processing, and supply. Farms and ranches range from traditional small family 

 or individually-owned operations to a few large-scale multimillion dollar cor- 

 porate farms. According to the 1978 Census of Agriculture, individual or 

 family farms made up 83% of total farms as opposed to 6.3% for corporate 

 farms. This pattern has remained relatively stable over the last decade. 

 Wilcox et al . (1974) concluded that large corporate farms are not displacing 

 the private individual or family farms. They contend that many of the corpor- 

 ate farms are owned and operated by families and individuals and still exhibit 

 the characteristics of family farms. 



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