Wednesday, May 5, 2010

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




This chart illustrates the number of U. S. farms and all farm workers between1910 – 2000. We can see the trends are steadily declining.

First, the best time was at the beginning of the century from 1910 to 1935, the farms were around 13,800,000 farm and the farm workers were about 6,250,000 workers. In the next decade there was a slight decline in the trend, in 1950 the farms fall to 10,000,000 farms and the farm workers were reduced to less than six million workers. But in the next two years there was a sharp decline in the both farms and farm workers, the farms were fall to less than four and a half million and the farm workers were around half, about 3 million farm workers. In 1970 the fall did not stop and the number of farms and farm workers were close to gather. The farms were fall to around three million and the farm workers were about 2 million, this means some farms had only one to two workers

In conclusion, both farms and farm worker numbers decreased from 1910 to 2000 and level off after 1980.i think this big problem is not effect US only but all countries over the world are suffering because the food will reduce and the price will increase so some people cannot buy the food to live.

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