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2,000 acres is the top 4% of farm sizes. https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2019/2017Census_Farms_Farmland.pdf https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publica
by freddie_mercury 4y ago
2,000 acres is the top 4% of farm sizes.
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2019/2017Census_Farms_Farmland.pdf https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2019/2017C...
By way of comparison, a top 4th-percentile income is $205,000 a year.
Saying 2,000 acres is a small farm is like saying $205,000 a year salary is low-income.
- diordiderot 4y agoI know dozens of people that have a few goats or who 'farm' hay for the tax benefits.
- asebold 4y agoI’m sorry but this is sorely misguided. How many of the farms surveyed are the owner and operator’s full time job? How many of those farms are owned and operated by multiple families at the same time? Farming in the US is nothing like a corporate job, or even most small businesses, for reasons I just don’t have the time to share. Your comparison to income for the general population…doesn’t work. Farms with 2k acres or less are indeed small, family run operations. Especially if you only farm cash crops. These are the kinds of farms that rely on right-to-repair the most. Not the homesteader family with 16 acres and some goats. Sorry all, your idea of what most full-time, successful, multi-generational farming operations in the US looks like is simply not accurate.