In The Long Run
- by Carolyn Dimitri and Anne Effland
- 5/1/2007
Farm population as a share of total U.S. population
Farm population has fallen steadily as a share of total U.S. population for more than a century. Less than half the U.S. population has lived on farms since these data were first collected in 1880.
This article is drawn from:
- Rural Economy & Population. (n.d.). U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
- Farm & Commodity Policy. (n.d.). U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
- Farm Household Well-being. (n.d.). U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.