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.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Colored people and woman people farms are working great in Zimbabwe and South Africa... Oh wait...
Most family farms are incorporated. Corporate farm is family farming as long as they don’t sell out to the conglomerates that both farm and process.
Yeah they are incorporated like another business but family farms are dropping like flies.
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