American Farm Bureau Federation: New Census Shows Alarming Loss of Family Farms
February 14, 2024
February 14, 2024
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Feb. 14 (TNSres) -- The American Farm Bureau Federation issued the following news release on Feb. 13, 2024:
New agriculture census data released by USDA today is cause for concern as the number of farms operating in the United States and the number of farm acres have both fallen significantly. The 2022 Census of Agriculture reports 141,733 fewer farms in 2022 than in 2017. The number of farm acres fell to 880,100,848, a loss of more than 20 million acres from j . . .
New agriculture census data released by USDA today is cause for concern as the number of farms operating in the United States and the number of farm acres have both fallen significantly. The 2022 Census of Agriculture reports 141,733 fewer farms in 2022 than in 2017. The number of farm acres fell to 880,100,848, a loss of more than 20 million acres from j . . .