7 billion mouths to feed 365 days. Some of you might be thinking what does 7 billion mean? Well according to worldometers.com the 7 billion represents the population of the world. Here's another fact, there are 2.2 million farms in the United States. Ok, that's enough facts lets get right to explaining about farms and farming.
2.2 million farms dot America's rural landscape. About 97 percent of U.S. Farms are operated by by families. Farming is important because it provides food and jobs in a society. Industrial farming provides a large amount of food and jobs in a society. Family farming improves the local land and reduces the family's dependency on commercially grown food.
Farm and ranch farmers comprise 2 percent of the United States population. The state that grows the most crops is Texas. It's Texas because the acres of the farms are an average of 676 acres. The other reason it is Texas is because of the big space they have. Just think about it Texas is the biggest state in the United States.
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Farmers make an average of $40.35 per hour or 83,860 per year. Most farmers supervise crop production from planting to harvesting. They evaluate market factors and soil conditions to determine how to raise crops. They choose and buy seeds, fertilizers, machinery and other supplies.
The United States sell mor food and fiber to the world market than we import. Hemp production originated in Central Asia thousands of years ago. The plant is one of the oldest sources of textile fiber. In fact, hemp rivaled flax as the main textile fiber until the middle of the 19the