Remember, not all land is the same. Some is too dry to grow human food. Some too wet. There are also other things that land is either too or not enough.
this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2025
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How nice for the Reed family/Green Diamond to be split into 'private family owned timberland' and 'corporate timberland'.
This graph is confusing because there are state lines drawn underneath, but it’s not saying by state.
Very interesting! Now do one for EU, please.
hugging the west coast, there are tons of cow farms, and a small part of cali is for the military, SEAL training.
Can't figure out why the 100 largest landowning families aren't using their land for any of the other reasons. Surely some of them are having it farmed for them too?
OIL. There's a LOT of land that might be considered cow/grazing but won't really grow anything worth it. See West Texas.
Swamps don't make good farms, but some people try to farm in FL, it's just inefficient and heavily pollutes or eliminates wetlands
Do we not eat any of the cows?
It simply takes a loooot of food to produce 1kg of beef
Vegans and ecologists have been talking about this exact issue for a while now
literally decades. lots of talk around the conditions that bring new pandemics too.
if its alafalfa, i think alot of farm land are, its usually exported to the Middle east.
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and somebody owns every square inch of it.
is Alaska included? or are we just ignored because of our small population?
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God I miss living in the west.
This makes my eyes bleed
Yeah Maine is so well known for it's urban housing
And Nevada for its timberland.