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USDA, 2022 Census of Agriculture, county data for St. Joseph County, as reported by the two secondary carriers named; the conflict printed whole
At county frame the farm economy the township feeds into is still a large one, and its two reporting carriers agree on the land and disagree on the count — both printed, neither merged. Land in farms in St. Joseph County stands at 153,034 acres on both carriers' USDA-based figures (FarmlandIntel's county profile; HarvestFile's county agricultural profile, which adds 142,000 acres of cropland). The farm count divides them: FarmlandIntel reports 547 farming operations in the county, with an average farm size of 279 acres; HarvestFile reports 40 farms, with an average size of 280 acres. The averages agree because the acreage agrees; the counts cannot both be the Census of Agriculture's county farm count, and this build adopts neither — the USDA's own Table 1 county summary for St. Joseph County, read first-hand, is the settler named's note. What stands without the count is the shape: roughly half the county's land area in farms, in holdings averaging some 280 acres, against the two cities and the suburban townships — Clay among them — where the farm frame has given way to houses. Clay Township today is the county's suburban north tier; its agriculture survives at its edges, and the town of Indian Village stands where its farms were.