Touch the Soil News #2061 (photo – Growing Crops – Public Domain, USDA) Each year, the USDA puts out a report called Farms and Land in Farms. The data provides trends for growers of all sizes and goes back to 1950. The peak farmland year in America was 1954 when the nation was farming 1,206,335,000…
Touch the Soil News #2019 (photo –Wheat Harvest – (Courtesy of USDA ) Trends often times not publicized can be more astonishing that the publicized trends. Take farmland for example. The USDA reports that in 1953, America’s “peak” farmland year, the nation was farming 1,205,740,000 acres. In 1953, America had a population of 160,180,000 people. …
