okay, welcome back everyone. my name is joe glauber and i m a nonresident senior fellow here at aei and a senior research fellow at the international food policy research institute here in d.c. our next panel is going to look at the structure of u.s. agriculture. i think we herd a lot in the first panel how essential u.s. agriculture isn t monolithic. there s a lot of diversity that farms vary considerably across size differences, regional differences, occupation, or in terms of enterprise differences, what they grow. we will see in some of the presentations that we are going, in the session, the farming also has changed a lot over time. we ve seen a lot of concentration in agriculture. we have seen larger and larger share of production produced by smaller and smaller proportion of the folder population and increasingly received a lot of income that farm households receive come from off the farm. i think it s interesting for what the consequences are of this for arm policy.
okay, welcome back everyone. my name is joe glauber and i m a nonresident senior fellow here at aei and a senior research fellow at the international food policy research institute here in d.c. our next panel is going to look at the structure of u.s. agriculture. i think we herd a lot in the first panel how essential u.s. agriculture isn t monolithic. there s a lot of diversity that farms vary considerably across size differences, regional differences, occupation, or in terms of enterprise differences, what they grow. we will see in some of the presentations that we are going, in the session, the farming also has changed a lot over time. we ve seen a lot of concentration in agriculture. we have seen larger and larger share of production produced by smaller and smaller proportion of the folder population and increasingly received a lot of income that farm households receive come from off the farm. i think it s interesting for what the consequences are of this for arm policy.
terms of oversight. what of those hearings? what will we see this week, even though it s a short week in terms of oversight? i mean, the main offering for house republicans this week is going to be the china select committee. obviously. [inaudible conversations] good morning. i m vince smith director of aei s agricultural program and professor of economics at montana state university. it s a genuine pleasure to welcome everyone whether you re here in person or with us online. all watching on c-span. the american enterprise institute is wonderfully privileged to be able to welcome you here for this important discussion of the state of the u.s. farm economy and considerations about what that state means to the 2023 farm bill debates that are emerging right now. today, we have two panels of distinguished researchers and policy analysts. speakers from the first panel will focus on objective evidence about the current financial state of the u.s. agricultural sector and progres