[colechristensen]

My father farming on ~400 acres purchased from the government ~140 years ago isn't a hobby. The records for the deed have only my relatives after the Louisiana Purchase. There aren't a whole lot of family farmers left out there, but they do exist (regardless of large operations branding themselves as "family farms" because "I have a family!" and what others classify them as).

[rcpt]

How do I interpret this?

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/even-mega-farms-are-mos...

Most farms are "family" owned but perhaps OP was trying to communicate that nowadays farm owners are rarely farm workers?

[colechristensen]

A very large proportion of farms of any size have a single owner or are split between e.g. brothers.

A rather small proportion of farms are singly/family owned and have a majority of the work done by that family.