Less than two percent of Americans feed the 98 percent by farming on the land they live and raise their children on.
Even though farmers are accomplishing the task of feeding America it is becoming harder and harder to do so with housing developments coming through and buying their land. Farming is truly a family business, because without children to pass the land onto the farm is bought and sold to be used for housing developments.
Guy Moore using a tractor to bail hay in a field June 18, 2014, at Larriland Farm, Md. The hay will be used to put around the roots of other crops during winter to combat freezing temperatures that occur is the northeast. Original public domain image from Flickr