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Show UTAH FARMS TOTAL 13,000 IN 1980 Utah farm numbers held steady at 13,000 during 1980 as it has for the last three years. Land in farms continued con-tinued to be 12.6 million acres. ac-res. The average farm size was 969 acres. The numberoffarmsinthe UJS. declined by 9,000 from 1980 to 1981 totaling 2.42 million. 875,000 acres were removed from agricultural production during 1980 leaving leav-ing 1.041 billion acres in farms. The size of the average farm in the U.S, increased one acre to 430 acres. Farms are defined as places from which $1,000 or more agricultural products pro-ducts were sold, or normally nor-mally would be sold, during dur-ing the previous year. |