Pluractivity: A Retro-Prospective
The short(er) story:
- Share of farm family income from net farm income is declining
- But when income received by families from the incorporated farm is taken into account
- The share of family income from farming activity and from nonfarming activity has not changed (much)
- Increase in share of “wives” with a non-farm occupation
- (Very) small increase in share of “husbands” with a non-farm occupation
- In the longer-run, (very) little increase in share of operators with offfarm work
- And there has been a decline in non-farm activities on the farm
- Thus, pluriactivité of operators appears the same now as in the 1920s