The Census of Agriculture was released earlier this year, and the headlines reflected the well-known but unfortunate trends in U.S. agriculture – we continue to lose farmers and farmland, and of those remaining, the farms are getting bigger and bigger.
But there’s also some good news in the Ag Census, especially for Minnesotans. Bucking the national trend, Minnesota has more farmers in 2022 than we did in 2017, and a significant number of those farmers are women, people of color, and new or beginning farmers.
The Census of Agriculture, conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) every five years, works to be a complete count of U.S. farms and ranches, and the crops and livestock they produce.
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Categories: Minnesota, Crops, Livestock