According to the United States Department of Agriculture, a lack of farms throughout the country impacts families in more ways than one.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Illinois, and others discussed the state of farming in Illinois and elsewhere Monday in Kankakee. Vilsack told an agricultural panel that the country is losing farms in large quantities.
"I was surprised to learn that we've lost 438,000 farms since 1981," V1ilsack said. "Just to give you a sense of how many farms that is, it is every farm in Iowa today, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, South Dekota, Nebraska and Colorado./"
Over that same period, 141.1 million acres of former farmland are no longer being farmed today across the country.According to the United States Department of Agriculture, a lack of farms throughout the country impacts families in more ways than one...more
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Maybe it's the drought? 40 years is almost a generation so perhaps the lack of farmers is a generation problem. Young folks can see the farming brings few rewards and lots of government interference. Try farming in a conservation district. Being dependent upon irrigation water is full of problems, namely the government believes the water belongs to them despite what the state law says. The irrational waste of limited irrigation on "endangered species" is an example.
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