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<br />Farm Consolidation Has Brought Larger Farms and an
<br />Increasing Number of Vacant Farmsteads
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<br />Table 20 - HISTORICAL AVERAGE FARM SIZE
<br />BY SUBREGION
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<br />Subregion 1949 1954 1959 1964
<br /> (Acres)
<br />Upper Missouri 1,863 2,118 2,494 2,762
<br />Yellowstone 1,896 2,328 2,646 3,038
<br />Western Dakota 1,515 1,658 1,861 2,141
<br />Eastern Dakota 474 504 563 632
<br />Platte-N iobrara 920 990 1,146 1,293
<br />Middle Missouri 191 202 219 256
<br />Kansas 419 459 518 590
<br />Lower Missouri 157 177 208 232
<br />Missouri Region 512 578 650 690
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<br />Source: U. S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Census, Agri-
<br />culture Census, 1949, 1954, 1959, and preliminary 1964.
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<br />Table 21 - NUMBER OF FARMS BY SIZE AND SUBREGION, 1964
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<br /> Subregion Missouri Region
<br />Size of Farm Upper Yellow- Western Eastern Platte- Middle Lower Total Percent
<br />(Acres) Missouri stone Dakota Dakota Niobrara Missouri Kansas Missouri Farms of Total
<br />Less than 10 232 323 199 977 2.007 1,949 1,426 1,849 8,962 2.4
<br />10 - 49 383 645 304 l.582 3.044 4,504 2,681 12,454 25,597 6.7
<br />50 -- 99 293 547 280 1,512 3.373 5,902 3,394 16,027 31,328 8.2
<br />100 - 139 182 416 193 929 2,128 4,656 1,856 11,372 21,732 5.7
<br />140 - 179 434 681 652 4,211 6,806 11,588 5,434 11,002 40.808 10.7
<br />180 -. 219 206 335 166 1,518 2,734 5,499 2,158 7,837 20,453 5.4
<br />200 - 259 218 351 253 2,756 4,069 7,816 3,802 7,006 26,271 6.9
<br />260 - 499 1,555 1,536 2,428 16,765 14,173 19,818 16,388 20,170 92,833 24.4
<br />500 - 999 2,417 1,412 4,959 15,074 8,669 4,989 8,448 7,815 58,372 15.4
<br />Greater than 1000 8,564 4,329 10,665 8,858 10,651 666 13,037 1,529 53,710 14.2
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<br />Total 14.484 10,575 20,099 54,182 57,654 67,387 58,624 97,061 380,066 100.0
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<br />Source: U. S. Department of Commerc~, Bureau of the Census, Agriculture Census; 1964.
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