Census of agriculture reveals big dips in cotton and cattle cultivation.
every five years. Instead of people, however, they count anything related to farming and ranching – like livestock, acreage, tractors and crops.
What’s happening here is that the mid-sized family farm is going away, by and large. And one of two things is happening to it: It’s either being consolidated into a larger property owned by a big agriculture company, in all likelihood, or it’s being chopped up and subdivided into smaller properties, ranchettes that are mostly purchased by city people who want somewhere to get away to. So you’re seeing growth of really big farms and small farms.That is the case.
What’s interesting about these reports is you can see what people are experimenting with, just on sort of a trial basis – for example, mustard seeds. There was no mustard seed produced at all in 2017, but 250,000 pounds in 2022. Likewise with chickpeas: No chickpeas really grown in Texas before 2022, but somebody cultivated 12,000 pounds of them.
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