Large operators take a bigger share of U.S. farming
The largest U.S. farming operations, those with more than $500,000 in annual sales, control a seemingly ever-growing portion of the country’s farmland. The annual Farms and Land in Farms report by USDA says big farmers operated 41.2 percent, or 376 million acres, of the 913 million acres of land in farms in 2015. Three years… » Read More
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