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That's about 0.00003% of all U.S. farmland. EDIT: I failed basic arithmetic, apparently. It's 0.03%
by jevgeni 6y ago
That's about 0.00003% of all U.S. farmland.
EDIT: I failed basic arithmetic, apparently. It's 0.03%
- sokoloff 6y agoI think it's about 0.03% of all US farmland, 3 orders of magnitude more. 267K acres out of 897M acres.
- kickout 6y agoNo, there are only 330M acres of US farmland according to the USDA: source in blog post sorry https://thinkingagriculture.io/incentivizing-regenerative-agriculture/ https://thinkingagriculture.io/incentivizing-regenerative-ag...
- sokoloff 6y agoPage 4 in this USDA Ag Stats report says it's 897M acres: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Todays_Reports/reports/fnlo0220.pdf https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Todays_Reports/report... "Total land in farms, at 897,400,000 acres, decreased 2,100,000 acres from 2018." I've seen the 330M acres figure elsewhere as the "prime" farmland area rather than total farmland and the blog post you cite has figures that include fallow, idle, and pasture farmland categories above the crop usage figure of 330M acres. In any case, cropland is 2.5 orders of magnitude higher than GP's calculation rather than a full 3.
- jevgeni 6y agoThanks!