Julia Freedgood

Iowa farmland loss to development

US lost 11 million acres of farmland to development in past 2 decades

In the last 20 years, more than 11 million acres of US farmland have been converted, fragmented or paved over by development projects, according to a new report by the American Farmland Trust.

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