Posted on 03/07/2024 12:15:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
Some 39% of the United States is farmland. But, according to the Department of Agriculture’s recently published farmer census, there are fewer farms, and the ones that are surviving are bigger than before.
Another statistic that’s worth pointing out: More than 150,000 farms and ranches use renewable energy, up 15% since the last census in 2017. Incorporating solar panels onto open fields or buildings was the most popular method. That’s progress.
But the demographics reported in the census are less of a cause for celebration. People of color and women remain underrepresented. Despite diversity efforts in recent years, less than 5% of America’s farms are owned by non-white people, the same percentage reported five years prior. Plus, in 2022, 36% of producers were women.
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>> less than 5% of America’s farms are owned by non-white people
they just don’t want to be field hands because it reinforces racial stereotypes, plus the work is too hard
I hope so.
The free market would stipulate that if there was a shortage of farmers...then the value of being a farmer would go up significantly enough to fill in the shortage.
If pumping sewage into a honey wagon payed 100 bucks an hour....people would be kicking the doors down and getting college degrees in order to get hired into that “Career”.
And you know what...if enough people refused to pump sewage at the current labor rates...it would eventualy pay 100 an hour.
Hand over farms to People of Color and women. Then complain about spreading starvation in less than a generation.
The EU is trying to stop, farmers from farming and now it’s conducting Food Crisis Wargames , LOL
Why would Gen Z need farmers when there are Uber Eats and DoorDash?
Push a button and wait for the food to show up
No worries. AI will run the farms. Robots (be they mechanical or humans with brain implants) will follow AI instruction for what to plant, how to grow it, when to harvest it, how to harvest it and how to distribute it (to right thinking humanoids only).
No. Too much work.
Food will be imported.
Exactly.
Electricity comes out of the wall. No need for power plants.
Sad that a lot of people seriously think these things.
Didn't they try this in South Africa?
It's "progress" to suck up huge tax breaks and take precious farmland out of production? In what world is that "progress"? If they are worried about not enough farmers, then shouldn't they be worried about HUGE amounts of productive farmland being used for solar and wind power? That's a much more serious issue, all caused by FedGov market-distorting policies.
In a story about whether there will be enough farmers, why do they feel compelled to discuss renewable energy? What's that go to do with anything about farming?
There are lots of women in agriculture and have been for a long time.
Isn’t the first thing you check on your food packaging the color of the skin of the guy who grew the food?
Israel handed over extensive and productive greenhouses to “Palestinians.” You can guess how that turned out.
How do we make them stop with this bullshit?
Do people want "black produced corn and soybeans?" Are blacks clamoring to be farmers?
The few that now exist can access so much Fed.gov money, they are probably more corporate welfare recipients, than they are farmers.
Bug farmers are a dime a dozen.
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