James M. MacDonald is a branch chief at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service (ERS).
Robert A. Hoppe is an Agricultural Economist who started working at ERS in 1978. For the past 20 years, he’s conducted research on farm structure.
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Rural America
By the Numbers: A Look at Consolidation in U.S. Agriculture
James M. MacDonald and Robert A. Hoppe