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Farmland in the US has been going away for years, and getting turned into developments and urban sprawl.
by bigbillheck 5y ago
Farmland in the US has been going away for years, and getting turned into developments and urban sprawl.
- eru 5y agoDo you have numbers on how much of an issues that is?
- bigbillheck 5y ago3-ish percent between 1992 and 2012: https://www.ngfa.org/newsletter/report-outlines-dramatic-loss-of-u-s-farmland-between-1992-2012/ https://www.ngfa.org/newsletter/report-outlines-dramatic-los... (and it's disproportionally the good land)
- fennecfoxen 5y agoFor context, about 5% of the US is developed, and about 45% is used as farmland. Sprawl can be pretty bad and still not have much of an effect.