Question

In which period of American history would you have been MOST likely to find the greatest number of farmers ?

Answer 1

Answer:Agriculture is a major industry in the United States, which is a net exporter of food.[1] As of the 2007 census of agriculture, there were 2.2 million farms, covering an area of 922 million acres (3,730,000 km2), an average of 418 acres (169 hectares) per farm.

Explanation:

Answer 2

In which period of American history would you have been MOST likely to find the greatest number of farmers ?

A) 1920s

B) 1940s

C) 1960s

D) 1980s

ANSWER: 1920s

Explanation:

• A major change in American agriculture and rural life took place in the 20th century. At the beginning of the 20th century agriculture was labor intensive. In rural areas, more than half the U.S. population lived in many small, diverse farms. The farms, together with 22 million livestock, employed nearly half the American workforce and produced on average five different commodities. On the other hand, the agriculture sector of the 21st century is centered in less than a fourth of the U.S population in a limited number of larger farming specializations in rural areas.
• The transition has led to an increasingly productive US agriculture and contributed to the overall growth of the U.S. economy. The production of US farms has increased significantly, enabling customers to spend ever smaller portions of their income on food and free a large proportion of the population from non-farm employment that have driven economic growth and development.
• The American agricultural economy saw a rapid growth in the early 1920s largely due to new technology and mechanization in particular. The market had vanished from Europe and Russia, due to war and imports of American agricultural products worldwide.
• New innovations, including the hybrid harvester, resulted in the bigger, productive farms, and slowly the bigger and more business-oriented companies replaced the small family farm that used to be the norm for years to come. Despite this increase in agricultural size and capital intensity, the vast majority of agricultural production was still carried out by families