Farmland, News Desk
- August 6, 2018
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Increasing Percentage of Family Farms Are Not Family Farmed

According to the Department of Agriculture, 99 percent of all farms in the US are family-owned, not corporate farms. Yet because of demographic trends and costly barriers to entry, only 60 percent of farmland nationwide is actually farmed by those same families. The remaining 355 million acres are rented out, and that number is likely to increase. This is especially the case in the heart of the Corn Belt, Iowa. Currently in the Hawkeye State, more than half the agricultural lands are farmed by tenants, not the owners themselves. Among the many drivers propelling this growing trend are the prohibitive costs of both land and machinery. The average Iowa farm encompasses 330 acres, and the average price of an acre of Iowa farmland exceeds $7,000 per acre. In other words, $2.1 million is the typical cost of the land alone.
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