Protecting Farms and Promoting Innovation to Feed a Growing Population
According to USDA’s estimates, 6.6 million acres of US Farmland has been lost from 2008 through 2015, with a 1 million acre decline in 2015 alone. Closer to home, USDA estimates that both Alabama and Georgia lost 100,000 acres, and 50,000 acres were lost in Florida in 2015. The US farming base has shrunk 7% in eight years, yet the world population is continuously growing.