How many people live on farms?

Question

do you know of anybody? or do you live on a farm yourself? and if so, what kind of farm? (this includes animals and crops) and where do you live? (eg, Manitoba, Canada or Montana, USA or etc.)... im curious as to how many people actually live on farms and where they live...

i live on a chicken farm in Manitoba, Canada

Answer 1

Beef cattle in Australia (NSW); 4000 acres, 600 cows, 4 dogs, 1 duck and me.

Answer 2

about 3/4 a million

Answer 3

I don't live on my farm, my brother does.  I am a partner with two brothers in a dairy farm in WISCONSIN, Clark County, WI, where we still have 1002 dairy farms!  To answer your question, specifically, one half of one percent of all US citizens are dairy farmers.  About one percent of the population of the US are farmers.  Sometimes when I tell people I am a farmer, they respond as if I might be a rare and endangered species.  Maybe we are.

Answer 4

Approximately less than 2% of the American population are involved in the agriculture sector.  This does not include "hobby farmers"

Answer 5

I live on a farm with my father. We have pretty much ever farm animals, but we have more goats and pigs then any other animal. I am in the FFA program so we have hogs and i show them and use them as practice for judging livestock. I live in Orlando Fl. Yes, even though we are mostly city we have farms.  Alot of my friends that live in St. Cloud Fl. live on farms. And if you go up around Mayo county Fl. you will find alot of dairy and chicken farms. I also know alot of hog breeders up in north florida.

Answer 6

I live on a farm in Colorado.  I lease the grass that grows to a neighbor for grazing as my acreage is no longer large enough to be a viable enterprise.  I beleive that less than 2% of the US population is actually involved in agriculture at the present time.  As the signs in Kansas say "one Kansas farmer feeds 139 people and himself"

Answer 7

Yes, we live on a farm.  We are in the process of moving our farm at the moment.  We are about half moved.  One farm is in Idaho, high mountain desert, at 4700+ feet elivation.

The farm we are moving to (where I'm originally from) is in Washington state, only 7 miles from the ocean, and about 20 miles from the Canadian border.

We are permaculture farmers.

What we currently produce:

Meat goats

Meat rabbits

Apples

Walnuts

Sheep

What will be added next year:

Pears

Plumbs

Peaches

More apple trees (different types)

Filberts

Chickens

Turkeys

Beef cow

Possibly pigs (probably two years out for them)

Rabsperries

Blueberries

Artichochokes

Asperagus

Rubarb

Herbs of all types

Possibly an alfalfa field

Cherry trees

Maybe fish in our large pond

Iris

Shrubs of different types

Large vegtable garden

All will be to feed our own family, and to sell to customers, except the alfalfa, and fish...those will be for our use only.  I will also be adding a couple more LaMancha dairy does for our use.

Everything on our farm (because we are permaculture farmers) has to tie to the next thing.  We do not want to import anything to our farm, except salt and minerals for the livestock.  

We will get back to the point where we are growing our own rapeseed again, so we produce our own fuel to run our trucks and tractors.  

We want our permaculture farm to produce all (or very nearly) of our needs, and all the needs of our livestock.

~Garnet

Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years

Answer 8

I come from a farm in a county called Shropshire in England, which my parents run (despite both of them being over 60) with my brother.

We are mainly an arable farm, the main crops that we grow are oats and winter bailey; we haven't raised livestock since the U.K. Foot and Mouth outbreak of 2001.

Answer 9

We live on a small, organic, working towards biodynamic farm.  We raise chickens, cows (both beef and dairy), sheep, apples, maple syrup, honey, and we have a large garden that we use to feed our family. We have a wonderful, kind, giant horse who pulls the manure spreader and tills the garden. We do sell some meat, and syrup but also barter a tremendous amount for various things in our town.  We are in upstate NY.

We have only lived here 10 years, hubby grew up on a farm, my parents were first generation off the farm, and we are doing this because we feel it is the best way to raise our children.

Answer 10

We own a Dairy in Alaska.   The people that live here are

my wife and I and out two children and our cousin.   Two hired hands that live in the basement.  We have dairy cattle: Holstein, and Jersey Cows.   Beef cattle also Angus/Galloway crossbreed.  Chickens also, Speckled Sussex and Barred Rock types.  We also have our personal pets such as our dogs three of them, a Corgi, a English Bull Dog, and a Manchester Terrier.  Then there are the 6 or 8 barn cats as well.   We raise Timothy Hay and also oats and barley and peas.  Average temp is the summer is around 65-75 and in the winter  8 to  27 below zero especially in January.

Answer 11

We live on a family farm in central Wisconsin; small I guess  by todays standards. . but big enough for us.  About 65 head of dairy cattle(holstein, guernsey, jersey, ayrshire,and cross breds), 80 chickens(assorted breeds), 8 barn cats, 1( red merle) blue heeler dog and 2 riding horses.

Answer 12

My grandparents live on a farm near the small town of Cabool, Missouri. They have lots of goats, chickens, and geese.