More importantly, farming started out as the occupation of 90% of the population in the US and has been continuously falling ever since. The total number of far

More importantly, farming started out as the occupation of 90% of the population in the US and has been continuously falling ever since. The total number of farms grew up until about 1950, but as a share of the population it was only in the low 30% range at that time. Source: https://www.agclassroom.org/gan/timeline/farmers_land.htm https://www.agclassroom.org/gan/timeline/farmers_land.htm