Statistics: The Changing Lives of American Farmers

Statistics: The Changing Lives of American Farmers

Statistics: The Changing Lives of American Farmers

Agricultural Productivity

1800

1900

Wheat

Worker-hours to produce an acre

56

15

Yield per acre

15

14

Corn

Worker-hours per acre

86

38

Yield per acre

25

26

Cotton

Worker-hours per acre

185

112

Yield per acre

147

191