Old farmers are aging out. Mid-sized farms are disappearing. New, definitive look at American agriculture doesn't paint a rosy picture.
Foster Gettys, right and Rachel Clement pick greens at the Owl's Nest Farm. By Laura Reiley and Laura Reiley Reporter covering the business of food Email Bio Follow Andrew Van Dam Andrew Van Dam Reporter focusing on economic data Email Bio Follow April 13 at 6:30 AM The Agriculture Department’s newly released 2017 Census of Agriculture is 820 pages of graphs, tables and puzzling shifts .
Industry consolidation continued. The number of dairy farms dropped 15 percent from 2012, but the number of milk cows rose. The National Agricultural Statistics Service, which compiles the census, indicates that just 105,453 farms produced 75 percent of all sales in 2017, down from 119,908 in 2012. But there were pockets of real growth in this census, which was originally scheduled for February but postponed by the partial government shutdown early in the year. The ranks of organic farmers swelled from about 14,000 to about 18,000, and total sales of domestic organic product more than doubled. An average organic farm sold about $401,000 of goods in 2017, up from $218,000 five years earlier.While the number of male producers declined 1.
Regardless of race, only two out of every five American farm producers list farming as their primary job. Almost as many, 1.37 million, spend 200 days or more each year working outside of the farm.
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