Representatives from the U.S. ag industry are providing their thoughts following the release of the Census of Agriculture.
Overall, the census counted 141,733 fewer U.S. farms in 2022 than it did in 2017. The questionnaire also found more than 20 million acres that were used for ag production in 2017 are no longer in use.
That land loss is comparable to removing an area of land the size of South Carolina.
Given these numbers, and how census data differs between states, organizations like the New York Farm Bureau are calling on the U.S. ag sector to pay attention to what’s happening in American ag.