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It is large by American standards. The USDA says that only 4% of farms in America are 2,000 acres or larger. https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights
by freddie_mercury 4y ago
It is large by American standards.
The USDA says that only 4% of farms in America are 2,000 acres or larger.
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2019/2017Census_Farms_Farmland.pdf https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2019/2017C...
The average farm in America is 446 acres, according to the USDA.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistics-charting-the-essentials/farming-and-farm-income/ https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...
The OP is completely out of touch thinking that 2,000 acres is small.
- cyanydeez 4y ago>Since 1974, the Census of Agriculture has defined a farm as any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the census year. That's a weird definition. Acres of contiguous land controlled by a single owner is how people tend to use the word farm. In reality, farmers are often equipment owners and negotiate with landowners to manage X acres. None of this discussion is worth wile in referencing farms. Best could be said : a farmer who has to service equipment equal to a 400 acre farm benefits by laws protecting their farm equipment.
- alvah 3y agoHere in Western Australia, the average cropped area per farm is almost 3,000 acres. From my perspective, 2,000 acres is a small-ish farm, and the 50-100 acre farms surrounding my parents' house in Scotland are comically small, heavily-subsidised gardens. GP may be wrong about the USA as a whole, though I'm sure there are areas of the US where 2,000 acres would indeed be a small farm.
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