WMTW-TV8 • March 21, 2024
A new federal report shows there are fewer farms now in Maine than there have been in more than 25 years. The United States Department of Agriculture released results of the 2022 Census of Agriculture, showing in 2022 there were an estimated 7,036 farms with 1.23 million acres of farmland, down from a peak of 8,173 operations and 1.45 million acres in 2012. Maine lost 564 farms and 82,567 acres of farmland since the last census in 2017.