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One US farmer can feed about 129 people! AMAZING!

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How many farmers in the US?

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Does the US grow enough wheat and corn to feed its own people?

Yes. In most years, US farmers grow enough wheat and corn to export around 30% of both crops to other countries.


What is US vegetation?

to feed animals and people


Did mostly merchants settle in the northern colonies?

No. Most people in all the colonies were farmers. Farming was a lot less efficient before modern times. Farmers worked very hard but produced much less food than they do today. It took a lot more farmers to feed the people. As late as 1900 in the US one person out of three was a farmer. Another way of looking at it is that one farmer could only feed two other people in 1900, and by 1900 farming was more efficient than in colonial times. Today only one person in sixty is a farmer in the US. There was no way to transport crops over long distances, except maybe between cities near the coast. But moving foodstuffs by ship is expensive. Everywhere people lived in the colonies, most of them were farmers, and their crops went to feed their neighbors and their own families.


How many farmers were there in the US in 2004?

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How many chickens does McDonalds kill and how many steroids do they put in the chickens?

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) does not allow poultry farmers to feed hormones to chickens, at least to those destined for food use. (see the related link)


How many feed stores in US?

120,700


How many people can each US farmer feed compared to the twentieth century?

In the 1960's a US farmer was feeding around 90 people. Today in 2011 it is around 155.


How many people does the average us farmer feed besides himself?

An average US farmer feeds about 155 people besides themselves. This is based on data from the United States Department of Agriculture, which shows that each farmer produces enough food to feed that many individuals annually.


Was farmers in china important?

Chinese people have to eat like the rest of us..............


Will there be a Feed Us 4?

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What were some major problems facing American farmers in the 1920s?

The farmers bought more land during WW1 to make a profit from the starving people of Europe. After the war the US was thriving and charged high taxes to foreign companies, ensuring that US companies had no foreign competitors. Unfortunately, this made Europe boycott US exports, leaving the farmers producing too much with not as many people to sell it to, which wasn't helped by the US's falling population. Then more efficient Canadian wheat growers sold wheat at a better deal than US farmers. Finally, the farmers bought machinery on a loan basis; as they overproduced and demand went down, they had to sell food at a minimum price to still pay loans. This failed and many lost their farms as a result. Not all farmers lost land; specialist farmers succeeded by selling fresh fruit and vegetables, such as lettuce, to the rich.