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13 October
8:58 pm

Forty years ago, we lost half of our small family farms.

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Josh Turek, at Iowa U.S. Senate General Election Debate (WHO 13 / Nexstar)

8:58 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific historical claim about the scale of farm loss in Iowa/U.S. that can be verified against agricultural census data.
What we foundThe claim that 'forty years ago we lost half of our small family farms' significantly overstates the actual rate of farm loss during the 1980s farm crisis era; a 48% decline in farm numbers did occur, but over a 33-year period (1959–1992), not as a single episode roughly 40 years ago.
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