The 2022 Census of Agriculture is officially out, showing 1.9 million farms and ranches nationwide, which is down 7 percent from the last check in 2017.
Despite the drop, data does show America’s producers are doing more!
Ginger Harris with USDA’s National Ag Statistics Service spoke with RFD-TV’s own Tammi Arender if that was something they were expecting, resources, women in ag, and anything new discovered.
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