Grain yields trailed behind those of agriculture in the West ( that can be partly explained by the more challenging climatic conditions, in particular long cold winters and short vegetative period ) compelling almost the entire population to farm.

* The Principality of Hutt River ( formerly " Hutt River Province "), a farm in Western Australia, claims to have seceded from Australia to become an independent principality, with a worldwide population numbered in the tens of thousands.

By 1994, farm size, on average, was smaller than one hectare, while population density was more than 450 persons per square kilometer of arable land.

Taiwan's agricultural population has steadily decreased from 1974 to 2002, prompting the Council of Agriculture ( COA ) to introduce modern farm management, provide technical training, and offer counseling for better production and distribution systems.

The population continues to be heavily rural and dependent on farming for its livelihood, although the farm structure in Uzbekistan has largely shifted from collective to individual since 1990.

Though " peasant " is a word of loose application, once a market economy has taken root the term peasant proprietors is frequently used to describe the traditional rural population in countries where smallholders farm much of the land.

" The conservative majority in parliament — largely managers, administrators, and representatives of such groups as war veterans and collective and state farm managers — had successfully slowed the pace of reforms, and the standard of living had decreased dramatically for most of the population.

The monastery in its heyday included workshops, areas for manuscript writing and copying, guest houses, an infirmary, farm buildings and dwellings for both the monks and a large lay population.

Juan Cornejo of the Teamsters Union and The Political Association of Spanish-Speaking Organizations organized the Hispanic population among cannery workers and farm laborers of Crystal City in 1962 – 63 and succeeded in electing an all Latino city council.

Loss of farm population often due to the aging of farm owners ended these sales.

The population shrank again in the 1980s due largely to the effects of the " farm crisis " of low crop prices, high farmer debt and other economic causes.

Renner is still listed as a populated place by the U. S. Geological Survey, but its " population " is a farm.

Since the majority of the rural population was spread out, and agriculture was traditionally undertaken individually, the rural population had to be forced to move together, and convinced to farm communally.

extra tenant house on the farm, southeast of Ashland, Alabama whose population of close to

During the harvest season, the population swells to over 15, 000 people due to the influx of migrant farm workers.

Much of its population consists of younger Latino families ( an estimated 90 percent of Hispanic origin ) and, in the outlying areas, migrant farm workers.

Founded in 1834 Tiskilwa emerged as a regional economic and cultural center integrating its own administrative capacities, schools, churches and shops serving a small population of townspeople and farm families from the surrounding 3 to 5 miles.

Currently ( as of 2010 ), the population of Griffith is at 16, 893 citizens and it still holds true to its reputation of a friendly community, even though it is not a farm town anymore, rather a built up metropolitan suburb.

As immigrants flooded into the United States in the mid to late 19th century, the population of Lawrence abounded with skilled and unskilled workers from almost every nation in Europe: Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Poland, and Lithuania ; French-Canadians from the provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island ; and farm girls from all over New England.

The upland farm population peaked around the year 1800, when more productive farmland opened up beyond the Appalachian Mountains in Western New York and the Northwest Territories.

By 1878, according to the Wadena County Tribune, which was published at Verndale, the population had grown to 300 and the countryside near the town was full of rapidly-developing farm sites.

The population was 342 at the 2000 census which at one point billed itself as the " Bluegrass Mecca " -- home to the largest bluegrass farm in the world.

Nunica experienced rapid growth in population in the early 20th century as settlers came to the region to mine zinc and farm.

Since the 1990s, as the cash economy shrank, unemployed relatives were absorbed back on the family farm, and the importance of this form of nomadism has increased.

As the rural economy steadily lost ground and caused dissent among the farmers, however, the government decided to implement measures to increase farm productivity and income by instituting the Saemauel Movement (" New Village Movement ") in 1971.

Lewiston was a slow but steadily growing farm town throughout its early history.

The area, having just one farm house in 1845, steadily grew into a center for shipping and railway transportation.

Afterwards, Jennings again returned to his farm where his health steadily declined.

Until the 1930s, many if not most of the farm colony's residents were elderly, and at times numbered as many as 2, 000 ; this number steadily declined after the Social Security system was adopted on the federal level in the United States ( although noted photographer Alice Austen lived there for a brief period in the early 1950s ), and the programs of the Great Society implemented in the 1960s further depleted its ranks, leading to the facility being closed in 1975.

Carver's reputation is based on his research into and promotion of alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes, which also aided nutrition for farm families.

More ubiquitous in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, kerosene space heaters were often built into kitchen ranges, and kept many farm and fishing families warm and dry through the winter.

Butter also served as a source of extra income for farm families.

Some settled in Illinois, many to farm or to seek success in commercial ventures: for example, the sailing ships Sully ( in May 1843 ) and Iowa ( in June 1844 ) brought families who set up homes in northern Illinois and northern Indiana.

In 1962, Community Research and Development board member Melvin Berman took interest in a 1, 032 acre parcel of land assembled by land developer Robert Moxley comprising four farm properties from the Carroll, Kahler, Wix, and his uncle James R. Moxley Sr's families.

With their land barren and homes seized in foreclosure, many farm families were forced to leave.

After the good timber was gone, the lumber companies sold many of the cutover forties to farm families.

* 1927 The Luling Foundation is established by Edgar B. Davis to teach diversity in agriculture and improve the lives of farm and ranch families.

The public is invited to come to each farm with their families as part of a free self-guided driving tour.

The crop failures of the “ Year without a Summer ” may have helped shape the settling of the " American Heartland ", as many thousands of people ( particularly farm families who were wiped out by the event ) left New England for what is now western and central New York and the Upper Midwest ( then the Northwest Territory ) in search of a more hospitable climate, richer soil, and better growing conditions.

As a result, farming families who were changing farms would travel from the old farm to the new one on Lady Day.

Forty-nine families were moved to Ráth Cairn, and each was given to farm.

Pea Ridge settlers were mostly farm families.

As community life developed, farm families could market corn, oats, wheat, tobacco, butter and cream, eggs and meats.

By 1900 Laguna Beach was occupied by five families of homesteaders struggling to farm land.

Among these first pioneer settlers were the Reinhardt, Heard and Rhyne families, who moved into the region looking for fresh, fertile farm land.

Although they do not live in the city limits, farm families are involved with the local schools, parks, and social activities – and are consumers of the products of local merchants.

The mill workers, young single women called Mill Girls, generally came from the farm families of New England.

After the railroad line was in, several Illinois families heard about the rich soil along the railroad and bought farm sites near the present day Easton.

The city still hosts undeveloped land and farms, including the historic Eidem Homestead, a 1900's working farm that is serves as a popular tourist attraction for families and school field trips.

As farming declined as an occupation and lifestyle, with large-scale commercial farming gradually replacing the family farm system during the second half of the 20th century, the city appeared increasingly destined to become a retirement and nursing community, until a new migration of younger families was made possible by the Internet, which created opportunities for telecommuting and e-business.

To sustain themselves families were forced to purchase and break more ground, making each farm larger.

With the beginning of mechanized farming the large farm families left for the cities as one person could farm several sections by themselves or with minimal help.