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Indiana Harvest Update from the Field
Did you Know?
- Indiana has more than 60,000 farms
- The average farm size in Indiana is 243 acres
- Indiana ranks 5th nationwide in corn production
- To keep up with population growth more food will have to be produced in the next 50 years as the past 10,000 years combined.
- Today, the average U.S. farmer feeds 155 people. In 1960, a farmer fed just 26 people.
- U.S. farmers produce about 40 percent of the world's corn, using only 20 percent of the total area harvested in the world.
Source: USDA and Indiana Farm Bureau
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