Recent surveys of American farmers across the U.S. show pessimism about the future and economic anxiety about the present, ...

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Biden is correct about the decline in the number of U.S. farms over the past four decades, and he’s close on the acreage lost, which is roughly equal to the land area of the three states he cited.