This report on farm income and employment in the Tennessee Valley region counties is the second report under the cooperative Regional Studies Agricultural Relations project of "Research in Agricultural and Industrial Development in the Tennessee Valley Region."

This study of the characteristics of high- and low-income counties in the upper Tennessee Valley supports the conclusions and general recommendations reached in other studies of low-income rural areas in the South. A decline in the number of people dependent on agriculture for a livelihood and an increase in the quantity of productive farm capital for those remaining in agriculture are necessary adjustments to raise farm-family income in low-income rural counties to a level more nearly approaching that of high-income counties.