School of Agriculture and Land Resources Management, Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station
Abstract
An analysis of commercial farming in Alaska has
long been needed. This report may supply helpful
information. It spans the yea rs from 1949 to 1954, a
time of rapid development and growth. T he study
analyzes detailed information supplied by 75 to 85
farmers in the Matanuska Valley and by 15 to 30 others
in the Tanana Valley. In 1952, records were also obtained
from 19 farmers in the Kenai Peninsula. These
record s are estimated to cover about 60 per cent of all
commercial farming activity in these particular areas
during the period.
Information on farming in areas outside the Kenai
Peninsula and the Railbelt was gathered from mailed
questionnaires supplemented by personal observations.
Data for 1949 and 1950 were collected by Clarence
A. Moore and were first summarized in his Mimeographed
Circular 1, Alaska Farms : Organization and Practices in 1949, and Bulletin 14, Farming in the
Matanuska and Tanana Valleys of A laska, both published
by the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Station.
The authors are grateful to the farmers, agencies and
others whose help made this work possible
