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I am not sure I understand your point. Please clarify. In the United States, the average size of a farm is around 400 acres.
by jelliclesfarm 5y ago
I am not sure I understand your point. Please clarify.
In the United States, the average size of a farm is around 400 acres.
- maxerickson 5y agoYou wrote "Family farms operate about half of America’s farmland and they are responsible for about 21% of production". The resource you link identifies those as small family farms and gives much larger ownership and production numbers when larger farms that are also classified as family farms are included. The article linked for HN discussion uses the term "family farm", which we can see doesn't mean a lot in the US. Now you are discussing, probably, mean size, which the article you link makes clear doesn't mean a lot (because there are many many tiny, not very productive farms).
- jelliclesfarm 5y ago‘Farms’ can mean a lot of things and they are not all producing food calories. So what is your definition of ‘productivity’? A farm can be profitable not growing anything and collecting subsidies. Many ranchers have a small herd and use their ‘farmland/ranches’ for endangered mitigation purposes as there is a lot of federal dollars for conservation. There are ‘farms’ that have upto $250k/year tax write off for an alpaca farm.