2022 Ag census

Fewer farms in the US, yet more new and beginning and young farmers. Some of the top takeaway points from the 2022 census of Agriculture. It allows us to take a snapshot in time, allows us to compare what has occurred over the five year period. Speaker1: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, among those presenting the findings Tuesday from the once every five year look at our nation's ag sector. Other notable data points from the census US farmland makes up almost 40% of our nation's total land. Family farms constitute 95% of all farms in America.

The response rate to the 2022 census of AG 61%, with more than 40% of those survey responses submitted online. Also online. The complete 2022 census of AG available www.nass.usda.gov/ag census all one word. Two particular data points within the recently released USDA 2022 Census of Agriculture raise the concern of the Agriculture Secretary. It was at the census release event Tuesday at USDA headquarters when Secretary Tom Vilsack pointed out, survey. Speaker2: After survey continues to show a decline in the number of farms and in the farmland. Speaker1: In terms of specific numbers. Speaker2: In 2017, when we did the survey, there were 2,042,220 farms. Today, the survey reports we have 1,900,487 farms. That's 142,000 fewer farms in five years. Speaker1: And regarding total farmland in. Speaker2: 2017, we had almost, well, a little over 900 million acres of land in farming. Five years later, we have 880 million acres, so we've lost 20 million acres.