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Queer Farmers in the 2017 US Census of Agriculture

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Pages 227-247 | Received 23 Dec 2019, Accepted 14 Jul 2020, Published online: 19 Aug 2020
 

Abstract

Research suggests queer farmers are both more prevalent than expected and different from other farmers in significant ways. Using 2017 USDA Census of Agriculture data, we investigate this premise using an innovative coding scheme to identify two-producer farms run by men married to men and women married to women. Our findings suggest a good deal of farms are run by queer farmers and are they significantly different in several ways from non-queer farms. We encourage further investigation of queer farmers using USDA Census of Agriculture data and provide the coding scheme needed to do so. We further call for a refinement of the USDA Census of Agriculture question regarding marital status making it easier to identify producers married to each other, and subsequently same-sex married producers.

Notes

1 We use ‘queer’ here and throughout to be consistent with the prevailing literature.

2 We cannot know how these individuals identify and therefore avoid using the labels ‘gay’ and ‘lesbian’.

Additional information

Funding

Primary funding for this research was provided by a USDA-NIFA grant [#2019-68006-29325] “Women Farmers on the Rise in the US and Idaho: Understanding and Supporting Women Farm Operators”.

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