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Torsten Brinch wrote in message
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On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 13:06:20 -0000, "Hamish Macbeth"
wrote:

Most professions the salary is the only compensation component.
Farmers
also have an asset (the farm) growing in value (long term).

That is afaik not measured in with farm income, since it is not income
from farming, not compensation for farming. I think it is better
expressed, farmers tend to be also land owners.

depends entirely on the country. Even in the UK a very high proportion
are tenants.

--
Jim Webster

"The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind"

'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami'