Tuesday, April 20, 2010

The number of U. S. farms and all farm workers


The chart illustrates the number of U. S. farms and all farm workers between1910 – 2000. We can see the trends are steadily declining.
Starting with farms in 1910 the number was 6.3 million and the farm workers were 13.5 million. Then, the number of farms slightly increased between the periods from 1910 to 1934, but farm workers slight decreased until it reached 12.5 million then increased from 1930 to 1935. After 1935 both number of farms and farm workers dramatically decreased until year 1975. Finally, from 1985 to 2000 they were same in trend, but different numbers farms number was 3 million and farm workers 2 million. Farms declined from around 2.2 million to 2.1 and farm workers declined around 3 million from 3.1 million.
In conclusion, in general both farms and farm worker numbers decreased from 1910 to 2000 and level off after 1980.

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