[robroys woman]

Most farms are corporate-owned

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I wonder how much farm LAND is corporate owned. I wonder how much of the food that makes it to grocery stores is from corporate owned farms.

[deport]

How much...?

Click the article and scan thru some of the info....

[jjotto]

The USDA Census of Agriculture from 2015 lists 32 million acres of corporate-owned land out of 284 million acres of farmland.

https://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Newsroom/2015/08_31_2015.php

[Nifster]

I know that reading the article is undesirable. Here is a link to a portion of it. Less corporate farming than you’d think

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=58288

[Rebelbase]

” I wonder how much of the food that makes it to grocery stores is from corporate owned farms.”

100%. Even small farms are “incorporated”. Some grocery chains make it a point to utilize small, local farms. The overall contribution of product to the total that small farms provide to the store is minuscule.

The outfit that farms tomatoes close to us sells directly to a regional grocery. It’s several hundred acres of locally grown tomatoes but the outfit is owned by mexicans and run by mexicans. No “local” people are involved at all.

[cherry]

I wish it were true that farms are 99% family owned....it doesn't mean that that 99% produce most of our food...

the govt counts almost anything as a farm...we have a small garden on 5 acres and I had to fill out one of those farm censuses a few yrs ago....

have on cow and a couple of chickens and the govt probably considers your place a "farm".

[tiki]

I can only speak for the farms in my part of our state and not one is owned by large corporations.

We have some large farm owners but they are family owned.