US Farms & Farm Workers

This graph shows the number of farms and all farm workers in the U.S during the period 1910-2000.

There is an obvious relationship between farms and farm workers which is that at all times the number of workers is more than the number of farms. In 1910, there were above 6 million farms but the number of workers was between 13 million and 14 million. Over the next 20 years, the number of farms increased slightly, whereas the number of workers fell slightly. The number of farms declined steadily over the next 40 years by about a half but the number of workers plummeted dramatically from over 12 million to just over 4 million. From 1970 until 2000, the number of both farms and farm workers decreased gradually.

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