ABSTRACT
All farms are not created equal. No one would argue with that statement. Obviously, irrigated farms are different from rainfed farms, and temperate farms are different from those in the tropics. Livestock "ranches" are different from crop "farms." But are large farms different from small farms? Are family farms different from industrial farms? Many would argue that large and small or family and industrial are not characteristics that differentiate farms, particularly when new or "modem" technology is concerned. I once heard the research dean of a U.S. land-grant university declare, "Certainly our technology works on small farms as well as large ones. We test it on small plots, don't we?"
