Wednesday, August 14, 2013

No Surprise, Farms are Getting Bigger

Modern Farmer:
A new USDA report (PDF) found that while most farms in the 1980s occupied less than 600 acres, today farms have nearly doubled in size. It might come as a surprise, but 96 percent of US crop farms are still family farms. They’ve just gotten much bigger.
Non-farmers always ask how much we farm, and when I tell them 900 acres, they always say that is a lot.  I tell them that it's small to medium sized, and, apparently, I'm right.

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