AmberWaves May 2007 Special Issue > Statistics > Indicators

In the Long Run Originally published Vol. 3, Issue 3 (June 2005) Carolyn Dimitri and Anne Effland Farm population as a share of total U.S. population Farm population has fallen steadily as a share of total U.S. population for more than a century. Less than half the U.S. population has lived on farms since these data were first collected in 1880. The data in this chart are drawn from. . . The 20th Century Transformation of U.S. Agriculture and Farm Policy, by Anne Effland, Carolyn Dimitri, and Neilson Conklin, EIB-3, USDA, Economic Research Service, June 2005. You may also be interested in. . . The ERS Farm Policy, Farm Households, and the Rural Economy Briefing Room. Printer-friendly format Download PDF version Email this page