Food Politics

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It summarizes the highlights: Number of farms: 1.9 million (down 7% from 2017) Average size: 463 acres (up 5%) Total farmland: 880 million acres of farmland (down 2%), accounting for 39% of all U.S. Farms with sales of $50,000 or less: 1.4 million (74% of farms); they sell 2%. For example: What more to say?

Agriculture 214

Agriculture Agriculture Farmland Acre 214

Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

Nearly four decades ago, Ron Mardesen and his wife Denise stopped using antibiotics on their hog farm, A-Frame Acres, in Elliot, Iowa. As the owner of a multi-generational farm, Mardesen has seen industrial agriculture and factory farming take increasing control over meat production in the last few decades.

Cattle 130

Cattle Food Acre Farming 130

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome.

Food 139

Food Agriculture Agriculture Pasture 139

Food Tank

APRIL 29, 2024

That’s why less than 10 percent of farms still have animals. Previously, it was cost-effective for farmers to graze their cattle or grow their own feed. Meanwhile, Black ownership of farmland has declined significantly, from 16–19 million acres in 1910 to fewer than 3 million today.

Family Farming 79

Family Farming Farming Farming Acre 79

Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In 2017, the year the previous report covered, the country had 2,042,220 farms. In that same span, the number of farmed acres dropped from almost 900 million acres to 880 million—a loss in area the size of all the New England states, minus Connecticut, Vilsack noted. The farm then creates a second source of income.”

Agriculture 83

Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 83

Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Worse still, many of them have invested large amounts of money in huge buildings to house factory farmed animals, and they are financially exposed with no alternative deployment for the infrastructure they have borrowed on. This is typical of quite a large number of farmers around here.

Food 130

Food Farming Farming Tractor 130