It is also a common question asked of producers and Michigan State University Extension educators when interacting with the public. To start, what is a farm? Given that definition, the census indicates that Michigan had 56, farms with an average farm size of acres note: one acre equates to a little less than a yard long American football field.
In the United States, the vast majority nearly 96 percent of the 2. Using gross annual sales, the USDA further classifies family farms as:. Acreage is another way to assess farm size. According to the USDA , small family farms average acres; large family farms average 1, acres and the very large farm average acreage is 2, It may be surprising to note that small family farms make up 88 percent of the farms in America. Then you can access your favorite statistics via the star in the header.
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In the charts we see the distribution by two measures. First, the number of farms of each size in other words, the number of farms that are less than 1 hectare; 2 to 5 hectares etc.
Second, the distribution by agricultural area i. We see large differences across the world. Lower-income countries tend to have many more smaller farms less than 5 hectares, or even less than 1 hectare. High-income countries tend to have most farms in the range of tens to hundreds of hectares.
China is an important stand-out, being a middle-income country that is still dominated by lots of smallholder farms. Note that this is based on the number of farms and not their percentage of total agricultural area, which can give very different results. This map shows which countries have seen an increase, decrease or little change in the average farm size since We see that most high-income countries have seen an increase in average farm size.
In contrast, most low and middle-income countries have seen a decline, which more disaggregation of land into smallholder farms. You can see the change in average farm size by country here. This chart shows the share of farms that are defined as smallholders. This chart shows the share of agricultural land that is operated as smallholder farms. A smallholder farm is defined as being less than two hectares. This chart shows the distribution of the types of foods grown by farm size.
This data is sourced from Ricciardi et al. The smallest farms those less than 2 hectares devote the largest percentage of their overall crop production to cereals. They also tend to grow more fruit, pulses and roots and tubers. Medium-sized farms tend to produce more vegetables and nuts. While the largest farms tend to produce more oilcrops such as soybeans or oil palm. This chart shows the distribution of the allocation of crops to their end use by farm size.
In other words, how much of crops grown are allocated towards human food, animal feed, and industrial uses such as biofuels. As farm size increases, more production tend to be allocated towards animal feed and processing into other products. Tragically, and somewhat paradoxically, they are also those who often go hungry.
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