US Farms & Farm Workers

The graph compares the number of farms and all farms workers in the 20th century in U.S. overall, all farms workers are near to the number of farms now than at the start of the period.

The biggest change was the sharp drop in all farm workers. It fell from about 12 million in 1950 to only around 5 million two decades later. The second major change was in number of farms in the first 20 years, the number of the farms plateau around 6 million farms. By the end of the period, number of farms and all farms workers both fell. The number of farms fell by more than half and the number of workers from over 13 million to 3 million.

To sum up, the workers and farms decreased year by year. But the decrease of farm workers was more dramatic over the years.