Show Less Farms In Utah for 1969 The number of farms In Utah continue to decline and the 1969 number numb r Is estimated at farms less than in 1968 according ac so cording to the Utah Crop and Livestock Reporting Service ce FARM numbers cumbers in Utah reached a record high in 1936 when there were farms According to the 1964 Census of Agriculture places of less than 10 acres where estimated sales of agricultural products for the year amount to at least 2 O Oare are Included as farms Also those with 10 or more acres with estimated sales of agricultural agricultural agri agri- cultural products amounting to at ate least st 50 are counted as fa farms farms ms THE ESTIMATE of land in Ut Utah h farms for 1969 is 13 3 million million million mil mil- lion acres This is 25 per cent total million acres of land In Utah Most of the remaining land is federally owned The nation had an estimated thousand operating farms in 1968 and will probably have fewer in 1969 The preliminary estimate for this year Indicates 2076 2976 th thousand usand farms will be beIt It 11 would operation This reduction would be slightly smaller than the average v rage of recent years TOTAL LAND In farms continued continued con can il to b decrease to approximately approximately 1128 million acres but ih the decrease was much slower thin than the decline in farm num num- numbers bers For 1969 the preliminary estimate of land landin In in farms farms' is 1513 million acres SIu Since e 1959 1959 farm numbers h have ve declined slightly more tJ tide a fourth while land in has decreased only 5 per cent These changes are associated with an increase inthe in inthe th the the average average size of farms from 28 0 acres acre in 1959 1959 to acres iii fi 1969 Discontinuance of small farming farming farm farm- ing Ins ing enterprises and the merging InS ing of larger units continue as the Important Influences in the c cl change e in farm numbers |