AG FACTS

FACT #1

• 2 million farms dot Americas rural landscape

FACT #2

• One U.S. farm feeds 168 people annually in the U.S. and abroad.

FACT #3

• In 2015, $133.1 billion worth of American agricultural products were exported around the world.

FACT#4

• Farmers and ranchers receive only 16 cents out of every dollar spent on food at home and away from home.

FACT#5

• About 23 percent of raw U.S. farm products are exported each year.

FACT #6

• Farm and ranch families comprise just 2 percent of the U.S. population.

FACT #7

• One in three U.S. farm acres is planted for export.

FACT #8

• 31 percent of U.S. gross farm income comes directly from exports.

FACT #9

• U.S. farm programs typically cost each American just pennies per meal and account for less than one-half of 1 percent of the total U.S. budget.

FACT #10

• Today’s farmers produce 262 percent more food with 2 percent fewer inputs (labor, seeds, feed, fertilizer, etc.), compared with 1950.