The Trend Towards Fewer and Larger Farms as Economic Growth Occurs. Covers the US
Title: The Trend Towards Fewer and Larger Farms as Economic Growth Occurs. Covers the US
Category: /Science & Technology/Biology
Details: Words: 708 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Trend Towards Fewer and Larger Farms as Economic Growth Occurs. Covers the US
Category: /Science & Technology/Biology
Details: Words: 708 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The structure of US agriculture has been shaped towards less but the farms are larger. In the early times of this country, people could make a living on the 160 acres they had received from The Homestead Act of 1862. This act gave families clear titles to 160 acres
if they had lived on it for five years. Though in today's changing world farmers have been forced to increase the sites of their operations or go out of …showed first 75 words of 708 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 708 total…and are selling out to the large farms and moving to town. This group hurts the second sector because they do not mind taking losses by selling their products for less, they just farm for fun . The farms in the US are getting fewer but the size of these farms are growing. I think in the next twenty years we will see fewer farms but the sizes will be comparatively larger than they are today.
