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By TOM TAYLOR
For many years, trends in U S. agriculture have been toward greater technological advances, declining margins, declining numbers of farms, and increasingly larger farms.
—2.0(X) farms pier week have gone out of business since 1950.
—9.000 farm residents per week relocated between I960 and I97h.
—Average farm size increased from 175 acres in 1940 to 450 acres in 1979. —2 percent of all farms control over 37 percent of the sales. —Nonfarmers may own as much as 50 percent of the farmland. —Of the people who own farm and ranchiand. only 25 percent are classified by the Department of Agriculture as farmers. The Nation has generally benefited from technological advances and growth in size, in that higher productivity has led to low and stable food
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