Re:Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner
by sokoloff on Thursday January 14, 2021 @02:01PM
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I think it's about 0.03% of all US farmland, 3 orders of magnitude more.
267K acres out of 897M acres.
Re:Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner
by kickout on Thursday January 14, 2021 @02:17PM
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No, there are only 330M acres of US farmland according to the USDA:
source in blog post sorry
https://thinkingagriculture.io/incentivizing-regenerative-ag...
Re:Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner
by sokoloff on Thursday January 14, 2021 @02:20PM
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Page 4 in this USDA Ag Stats report says it's 897M acres: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Todays_Reports/report...
"Total land in farms, at 897,400,000 acres, decreased 2,100,000 acres from 2018."
I've seen the 330M acres figure elsewhere as the "prime" farmland area rather than total farmland and the blog post you cite has figures that include fallow, idle, and pasture farmland categories above the crop usage figure of 330M acres.
In any case, cropland is 2.5 orders of magnitude higher than GP's calculation rather than a full 3.
EDIT: I failed basic arithmetic, apparently. It's 0.03%