Abstract
Recently, considerable public and professional concern has been expressed regarding the future structure of U.S. agriculture (Doering, Barkley). These expressions of concern have considered changing features of U.S. agriculture such as concentration of production on larger units, adoption of large-scale capital intensive production technologies and rapid escalation of land prices (Raup, Klepper et al., Moles). Of course, concern about the structure of agriculture is not entirely a recent phenomenon. Price and income support legislation consistently has cited the structure of agriculture and particularly the family farm as variables of considerable importance (Spitze). Implicit in these concerns is the suspicion that changes in the structure of agriculture may have at least some attributes which are socially undesirable (Heady, Goldschmidt). As these concerns about the future structure of
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