As the Number of American Farms and Farmers Declines, Agriculture Secretary Urges Climate Action to Reverse the Trend
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.”
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