Farm
Places were humans live and practice stewardship of the land.
What is a farm?
About what percent of the U.S. population is directly involved in farming?
What is 1%?
Agriculture directly or indirectly uses more than this percent of land resources in the continental United States?
What is more than 50%?
U.S. farmers grow more than how many different crops?
What 25?
GDP stands for?
What is Gross Domestic Product?
Agricultural imports are the farm products that ship where?
What are products shipped from other countries to the United States?
The food and fiber industry provides jobs for?
What is 23 million Americans?
The USDA has characterized farms by their level of sales. More than 50% of farms in the United States are small farms with an average of how many acres?
What is 100 acres?
What percentage of farm households hold off-farm income?
What percentage of the land in the United States is grazed cropland?
What is 31%?
Each farmer produces food and fiber for...
What is 150 people?
Farming contributes $140 billion of what percent to the GDP?
What is 1%?
Agricultural exports total?
What is $115 billion?
What are the four steps in the movement of food from the farmer to the consumer?
What are farmers or ranchers, farm input/service suppliers, food and fiber processors, and marketers.
What is 4%?
The three types of financial support to farmers are commodity, conservation and?
What are disaster payments?
The United States has about how many acres of cropland?
What is 440 million acres?
The 2008 Farm Bill limits CRP enrollment to?
What is 32 million acres?
The food and fiber industry within the United States adds about 12% to the GDP, or what dollar amount?
What is $150 trillion?
Agricultural imports total?
What is $80 billion?
Vertical integration is?
What is when a single firm controls several stages in the production of food and/or fiber.
Large farms produce about what percentage of total agricultural production in the United States?
What is about half?
Emergency payments to farmers when yields are low or nonexistent due to poor growing conditions.
What are disaster payments?
CRP enrolls highly erodible land under contract for typically how many years?
What is 10 years?
In areas with limited moisture/rainfall, land is not cropped to?
What is conserve moisture?
Farming is what percentage of the food and fiber section of the GDP?
What is 6%?
About what percentage of U.S. ag products are exported around the world?
What is 25%?
Vertical integration and concentration within the food industry has led to efficiency and?
What is reduced consumer prices?
The United States has about 2.1 million farms with the average size of how many acres?
What is 444 acres?
Most farms in the United States are family farms, what is the percent?
Of the land in the United States, about what percent is used for crop production?
What is 23%?
Corn, soybean, wheat and hay are grown on more than how many million acres of cropland in the United States?
What is 250 million?
What does the GDP stand for?
The United States two main trading partners are?
Who are Canada and Mexico?
What is agribusiness concentration?
What is when a small number of companies control a significant number of activities within the food and fiber production sector?