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Family Farms are the Focus of New Agriculture Census Data Five Facts to Know about Family Farms. 1  1. Food equals family – 97 percent of the 2.1 million farms in the United States are family-owned operations. 2  3. Local connections come in small packages – 58 percent of all direct farm sales to consumers come from small family farms.
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- The amount of. land in farms essentially held steady between 2007, when the last agriculture. census was conducted, and 2012. In that same fi ve-year period, however, the. number of farms. in the United. States declined, and average farm.
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- Nine out of ten of the world's 570 million farms are managed by families, making the family farm the predominant of agriculture, and consequently a potentially crucial agent of change in achieving sustainable food security and in eradicating hunger in the future, according to a new U.
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- Total U.S. farmland occupies 954 million acres. How many square miles is this? (1 acre = 43,560feet squared, 1 mile= 5280ft). A=? miles squared?
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Top U.S. states based on number of milk cows 2014-2018 About This Statistic. This statistic depicts the ten top dairy producing U.S. states by number of milk cows from 2014 to 2017. Over the past three years, California was ranked first with milk cows amounting to about 1.8 million. In 2016, the total number of milk cows in the U.S. amounted to about 8.69 million.
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Wisconsin Dairy Farms Are a Family Affair Not all farms have a story like the Larsons – Wisconsin’s dairy industry is extremely diverse. Of the more than 10,500 dairy farms in the state, there are rotational grazing operations, organic producers and conventional dairy farms of all sizes. Families like the Walkers of Walk-Era Farms, Inc., in Wisconsin Dells have managed to stay small through diversification and improvements in technology.
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Small, medium, large â Does farm size really matter? Given that definition, the 2007 census indicates that Michigan had 56,014 farms with an average farm size of 179 acres (note: one acre equates to a little less than a 100-yard long American football field). In the United States, the vast majority (nearly 96 percent) of the 2.2 million farms are family owned and operated. 1  The USDA defines a family farm as “any farm organized as a sole proprietorship, partnership, or family corporation.
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- 1).• Between 2007 and 2012, the amount of land in farms in the United States declined from 922 million acres to 915 million acres. This decline of less than one percent was the third smallest decline between Censuses since 1950.• In 2012, the average farm size was 434 acres.his was an increase of more than $52,000 (or 39 percent) over 2007.• From 2007 to 2012, the percent of farms with sales and government payments of $1 million or more increased, but most farms in the United States are small – 75 percent had sales of less than $50,000 in 2012.
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Small and large farms in the EU - statistics from the farm structure survey For several decades, the number of farms in the EU has followed a downward path. Between 2005 and 2013 the total number of farms in the EU-28 (excluding Croatia) fell by 26.2 %, equivalent to an average decline of 3.7 % per annum.
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- Beef cattle production represents the largest single segment of American agriculture. In fact, the U.S. beef industry is made up of more than 1 million businesses, farms and ranches. There are more than 800,000 ranchers and cattle producers in the United States. In 2007, the production of meat animals was responsible for $66 billion in added value to the U.S. economy.
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Cow-calf operation Cow-calf operations are widespread throughout the United States. A 1997 census found that this sector of the U.S. beef market produced over $40.5 billion. As of 2007 there were more than 765,000 cow-calf operators in the country, mostly concentrated in the Western and Southeastern U.S. states.
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- With 92 percent of its land in agricultural production, Iowa has dedicated a larger portion of its territory to farming than has any other state. More than 30.7 million acres on 92,000 farms produce much of the nation’s corn and soybeans. But there’s more to this state than tractors and farm reports.
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FARMING. In fewer than twenty years the area that became Oklahoma added about 180,000 farms to the nation's total. This was one of the most rapidly settled agricultural frontiers in American history. After 1910 the number of farms in Oklahoma remained about the same for a generation, between 190,000 and 210,000, until a steady drop began in the late 1930s.
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- Farmland Occupies 954 Million Acres. How Many Square Miles Is ThisBut here are some other results reguarding:total u.s. farmland occupies 954 million acres. how many square miles is this.
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Missouri Land for Sale According to official Census Bureau stats, there were 69,754 farms recorded in the state, covering a total of 14.6 million acres (or the equivalent of 35 percent of the overall state land area).
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Factory-Farmed Chickens: Their Difficult Lives and Deaths More than 9 billion chickens, along with half a billion turkeys, are slaughtered for food in the United States each year. This number represents more than 95 percent of the land animals killed for food in the country. Worldwide, more than 50 billion chickens are raised and slaughtered annually.
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- Our Farms - The Dairy State of Mind. California is home to more than 1,400 dairy farms. 99% of California dairy farms are family owned. Nearly 46% of all of California milk goes to make California Cheese.
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- Cattle production. in 2015 was 41.5 billion pounds, up 3 percent from the 40.2 billion pounds produced in 2014. For the second year in a row, the largest percent of the United States value of production from agricultural commodities. came from cattle and calves.
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- Trends in Pennsylvania’s dairy industry: 1  The number of Pennsylvania dairy farms is growing. 2  In 2014, Pennsylvania was the only state in the nation that increased in number of dairy farms. 3  Currently, 7,370 dairy farms are located in Pennsylvania, representing 16 percent of all dairy farms across the nation.
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Did you know? 1 Wisconsin has 11,000 soybean growers enriching our way of life. 2  98% of the U.S. soybean and livestock farms are family farms. 3  Wisconsin ranks 13th in soybean production among U.S. states.  Wisconsin soybean farmers grows twice as much food as his or her parents did using less land, energy, water and fewer emissions.
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Ninety-seven percent of US farms are family-owned â from the USDA 1. Food equals family – 97 percent of the 2.1 million farms in the United States are family-owned operations. 2. Small business matters – 88 percent of all U.S. farms are small family farms. 3. Local connections come in small packages – 58 percent of all direct farm sales to consumers come from small family farms.
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Ag and Food Sectors and the Economy Agriculture and its related industries provide about 11 percent of U.S. employment. In 2015, 21.0 million full- and part-time jobs were related to the agricultural and food sectors—11.1 percent of total U.S. employment. Direct on-farm employment accounted for about 2.6 million of these jobs, or 1.4 percent of U.S. employment.
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- According to the 2015 Organic Production Survey, in 2014 there were 14,093 organic farms producing on 3.7 million acres. Certified organic farms operated 4.4M acres of certified land in 2015, up 20% from 2014.
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Historical Timeline â Farmers & the Land Total population: 227,020,000; farm population: 6,051,000; farmers 3.4% of labor force; Number of farms: 2,439,510; average acres: 426; irrigated acres: 50,350,000 (1978) 1980s For the first time since the 19th century, foreigners (Europeans and Japanese primarily) begin to purchase significant acreages of farmland and ranchland
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With Wild Stocks of Shrimp Dwindling, Tank Farming Is on the Rise Though official statistics are not yet available, the number of small indoor shrimp farms in the United States has grown from just two to at least 22 over the last five years, with dozens more in the pipeline, according to RDM Aquaculture, which provides equipment and know-how to other shrimp upstarts.
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- Cotton is also a large state crop, accounting for almost a third of all cotton grown in the United States. According to 2012 U.S. Census data, there were 248,809 farms recorded in the state, covering a total of 130.2 million acres (or the equivalent of 76 percent of the overall state land area).