Show Residential Subdivisions Diverting Farm Form Lands Residential subdivisions account account account ac ac- count for 43 percent of the di diverted diverted diverted di- di farm land that's being to non agricultural uses according to a recent analysis by Eco USDA's Eco n mic Research Service A data sampling of farmland farm farmland land sales sales sales' also showed that 9 percent of the acreage went for commercial or in industrial industrial industrial in- in uses Average size of farm land tracts bought for non-farm non uses is acres down from 2111 acres reported in a 1972 survey |