Charts and Maps: The 20th Century Transformation of U.S. Agriculture and Farm Policy

Electronic Information Bulletin Number 3, June 2005
By Carolyn Dimitri, Anne Effland, and Neilson Conklin

figure 1 - both the U.S. farm population and rural population have dwindled as a share of the Nation's overall population

figure 2 - nonmetro farming-dependent counties, 1950 and 2000

figure 3 - as the number of farms declined, their average size decreased

figure 4 - as farms have become

figure 5 - farms are growing more productive

figure 6 - U.S. exports grew dramatically in the last half of the century

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Updated date: March 1, 2006