| Best data I could dig up >Most of the farms with livestock were farms with pastured livestock types and few other livestock, represented by 707,365 farms (54 percent). Farms with few livestock numbered 361,031 (27 percent), farms with confined livestock types numbered 237,821 (18 percent), and farms with specialty livestock types numbered 8,834 (0.7 percent). >Overall, farms with pastured livestock types and few other livestock accounted for only 17 percent of all livestock sales Of course, farms w/ confined cattle may raise free-range cattle as well. >Farms with confined livestock types accounted for 99 percent or more of all animal units on all farms with livestock for each of fattened cattle, milk cows, other dairy cattle,11 swine, chickens, and turkeys From skimming. This actually has some pretty interesting data, prolly warrants a more serious look. www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/technical/?cid=nrcs143_014121 |