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.

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研究表明，酷儿农民比预期的要普遍得多，并且在很多方面与其他农民有所不同。使用2017年美国农业部农业普查数据，我们使用一种创新的编码方案来调查此前提，以识别由两个男人嫁给一个男人经营的男人和一个女人嫁给一个女人的男人经营的两个生产者农场。我们的发现表明，很多农场都是由酷儿农民经营的，它们与非酷儿农场在很多方面有显着差异。我们鼓励使用美国农业部农业普查数据对同志农民进行进一步调查，并提供必要的编码方案。我们进一步呼吁完善美国农业部关于婚姻状况的农业普查问题，以使人们更容易确定彼此结婚的生产者，以及随后同性结婚的生产者。