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=====Even Mega-Farms Are Mostly Family Owned===== | |||
[https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/even-mega-farms-are-mostly-family-owned/ by Maggie Koerth 22/11/16 FiveThirtyEight] | |||
Farms are getting bigger and the smallest farms aren’t real farms — that’s what I told you last week in a story about how the official definition of “farm” in the national Agricultural Census obscures the consolidation that the farming industry has experienced over the past 30 years. But there’s another important part to this story: Consolidation isn’t the same thing as the loss of family farms. Ninety-seven percent of U.S. farms are family-owned, according to the most recent Agricultural Census.1 | |||
=====Meet the California farmers awash in Colorado River water, even in a drought===== | =====Meet the California farmers awash in Colorado River water, even in a drought===== | ||
[https://www.npr.org/2022/10/04/1126240060/meet-the-california-farmers-awash-in-colorado-river-water-even-in-a-drought by Dan Charles 4/10/22 npr] | [https://www.npr.org/2022/10/04/1126240060/meet-the-california-farmers-awash-in-colorado-river-water-even-in-a-drought by Dan Charles 4/10/22 npr] | ||
