[PW] ? decline in farmers

[Michael J. Lowrey]

On 1/30/07, Stacey Marien <smarien at american.edu> wrote:
> This is out of my area of expertise! I have a friend who wants to know
>  the decline in farmers and farmerland in Jefferson Co, WV
> from 2000 to 2007 (or from 1990 to present, something like that)
>
> Any of ideas of where to look?  He says the Farmland Trust did not have the
> answer

2002 U.S. Census of Agriculture is here:
http://www.nass.usda.gov/Census_of_Agriculture/index.asp#top
1997 is here:
http://www.nass.usda.gov/Census_of_Agriculture/1997/index.asp
1992 is here:
http://www.nass.usda.gov/Census_of_Agriculture/1992/index.asp

I hope that will give him enough to go on. The interface is not
entirely intuitive, but there's a LOT of data there.

-- 
Michael J. "Orange Mike" Lowrey

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food
and clothes."
     --  Desiderius Erasmus