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Do you have questions about your food or how it’s produced? Food is an important part of our lives – it’s common to have questions.
Most farms in the U.S. are owned by families – families that look a lot like your own regardless of the corner of the earth you reside. In fact, 97% of America’s farms are family owned. The remaining 3% of farms are nonfamily owned, but only 17% of those are corporations. Other types of nonfamily farms include those equally owned by unrelated business partners and those operated by a hired manager for a family of farm owners that aren’t active on the farm.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture
FarmingMost farms in the U.S. are owned by families – families that look a lot like your own regardless of the corner of the earth you reside. In fact, 97% of America’s farms are family owned. The remaining 3% of farms are nonfamily owned, but only 17% of those are corporations. Other types of nonfamily farms include those equally owned by unrelated business partners and those operated by a hired manager for a family of farm owners that aren’t active on the farm.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture
The farmer share of the price of food is not very large. Farmers receive only 14.3 cents of every $1 spent on food. The farmer then uses those funds to pay for the equipment, supplies and services it takes to grow and raise food and animals.
Source: USDA’s Economic Research Service
Food PricesEvery farm is unique – from climate to type of soil to the crops or animals raised and more. Fittingly, sustainability looks different on every farm. Farmers take into account their farm’s makeup to determine which management practices best conserve natural resources and benefit the environment.
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GMOs are simply technologically advanced hybrids – just like the plant hybrids farmers and gardeners have created for centuries as they grew plants. Scientists create GMOs to achieve a desired trait such as resistance to a pest or tolerance to drought conditions. GMO seeds and plants are rigorously tested by scientists, and reviewed by the Food & Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Agriculture before they are marketed. Today, there are 10 crops with GMOs that are commercially available: alfalfa, Arctic apples, canola, corn (field & sweet), cotton, Innate potatoes, soybeans, sugar beets and summer squash.
Source: Food and Drug Administration
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