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.
Hudson Valley Farm Hub focuses on mid-size operations
There are a lot of small farms in the United States and 200,000-300,000 large-scale operations that dominate production of the major row crops.