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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The number family farms/ranches has been going down since I was a kid.
Between AI and corporate farming, the family farm/ranch will continue to go extinct...
I know a number of women in ag, and they have the appropriate background to be successful, such as the LLC of my wife’s family, 90% female. I doubt they are who government Leftists want to ‘help’.
It’s not easy being a farmer and it’s really hard to start
farming unless you have a lot of money for the initial investment and if you have that kind of money you probably don’t want to farm.
Check out YouTube for Women Farmers. So many of the ladies are capitalizing on their fitness and good looks! Looks like they know how to monetize their videos.
I like Kate's Ag - Farm to Fashion for a no-nonsense, hard-working young lady on a huge wheat farm in Montana. She started a fashion line to pick up some more money, too. Smart young lady! I just watched a "short" she posted that she's been having some serious health issues and didn't post videos for a while. It sounds like she's doing better, but that was very sad to hear.
Thanks. I know long-time family farms are often in the hands of women.
Fresh Take: Will Gen-Z Have Enough Avocado Farmers To Feed The U.S.?
“Electricity comes out of the wall.”
Uh, this way of thinking is real.
Somewhere in Michigan a local government was strutting and crowing about their new electric vehicles.
Then a reporter asked where the electricity came from.
The government woman said “From the building,” pointing to the building beside them.
Then a guy from the power company chimed in and said it came from a coal-powered steam plant.
I’m not making this up.
according to Bloomberg it’s easy. throw some seeds in the ground, water them and plants grow. anyone can do it!
As a partial Breatharian, I survive on little more than what I can find in my kitchen and refrigerator, and infrequent trips to the supermarket or stuff from Amazon, so this is of little concern to me.
Isn’t Michigan where that dunderhead woman was located who said Obama got all of his money for health care “from his stash”?
palis live in brown houses anyway so what’s the difference? oh....the smell.
All the Gen Zeros will need to feed them in their 15 minute villages is bug hatcheries and algae farms
who needs farms when the grocery store is only a mile away?
Farming is not just an activity but is also a way of life that is best learned by being raised in it. Sadly, the lives and accomplishments of black farmers are little celebrated in black culture.
I saw that interview. I think they also asked an official how the electricity was generated and he had to admit it came from fossil fuels. (I can’t recall, but he may also have mentioned nuclear.)
They want Soviet-Style Collective Farms.
You vill eat zi bugs 🐜 🐛 🐞 and love it!
I don’t think you are getting it....
The farms will be owned by corporations and worked by invader/slaves.
” More than 150,000 farms and ranches use renewable energy”
When you give free stuff to anyone they take it. I would have “renewable” energy if someone else paid for it.
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