Table 3.
Women Primary Farmers’ Products, Value-Added, and Organic Status by Race
| White Women (n = 371,691) | Black Women (n = 5,403) | Indigenous Women (n = 16,762) | Pacific Islander/Asian Women (n = 4,015) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freq | Percent | Freq | Percent | Freq | Percent | Freq | Percent | ||||
| Products | |||||||||||
| Field | 36,873 | 10.66 | 365 | 6.76*** | 1,429 | 8.53*** | 137 | 3.41*** | |||
| Veg | 15,337 | 4.94 | 639 | 11.83*** | 938 | 5.60*** | 722 | 17.98*** | |||
| Sheep | 60,168 | 19.31 | 644 | 11.92*** | 8,229 | 49.10*** | 564 | 14.05*** | |||
| Bees | 15,728 | 5.11 | 164 | 3.04*** | 416 | 2.48*** | 174 | 4.33 | |||
| Hay | 119,544 | 34.29 | 1,178 | 21.8*** | 2,575 | 15.36*** | 456 | 11.36*** | |||
| Wood | 4,589 | 1.50 | 32 | 0.59*** | 52 | 0.31*** | 41 | 1.02 | |||
| Aquaculture | 720 | 0.25 | 15 | 0.28 | 15 | 0.09** | 21 | 0.52*** | |||
| Cattle | 130,978 | 35.24 | 2,438 | 45.12*** | 6,799 | 40.56*** | 747 | 18.61*** | |||
| Pigs | 16,965 | 5.49 | 229 | 4.24 | 619 | 3.690*** | 171 | 4.26 | |||
| Poultry | 76,886 | 24.77 | 702 | 12.99*** | 3,342 | 19.94* | 875 | 21.79 | |||
| Equines | 132,400 | 40.93 | 1,291 | 23.89*** | 8,263 | 49.3*** | 600 | 14.94*** | |||
| Other Livestock | 13,142 | 4.75 | 61 | 1.13*** | 599 | 3.57 | 102 | 2.54* | |||
| Nursery | 12,782 | 4.10 | 179 | 3.31 | 232 | 1.38*** | 516 | 12.85*** | |||
| Fruit | 26,681 | 8.59 | 350 | 6.48* | 700 | 4.18*** | 1,352 | 33.67*** | |||
| Direct-To-Consumer | 32,873 | 8.84 | 532 | 9.85* | 725 | 4.33*** | 805 | 20.05*** | |||
| Value Added | 142,973 | 41.51 | 132 | 2.89* | 278 | 1.81*** | 207 | 5.99*** | |||
| Any Organic | 6,707 | 1.98 | 125 | 2.58** | 178 | 1.20*** | 202 | 5.49*** | |||
| Certified Organic | 2,792 | 41.63 | 21 | 16.80*** | 42 | 23.60*** | 78 | 38.61 | |||
| Exempt Organic | 1,249 | 18.62 | 37 | 29.60** | 35 | 19.66 | 21 | 10.40** | |||
| Transitioning Organic | 709 | 10.57 | 12 | 9.60 | 36 | 20.22*** | 28 | 13.86 | |||
| Other Organic | 2,353 | 35.08 | 59 | 47.20** | 87 | 48.88*** | 93 | 46.04** | |||
(NOTE: All p-values use white women as reference group)
***p < 0.000, **p < 0.010, *p < 0.050