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item 1 — farms, acreage, and average size, as a dated frame
The frame, from the 2022 Census of Agriculture's published county profile, read whole: St. Joseph County in 2022 counted 547 farms on 153,034 acres of land in farms, an average farm of 280 acres — a county still farmed across most of its surface, its agriculture running in mid-size family operations rather than either hobby plots or consolidated empires. The profile's value lines size the county's agriculture for the articles that follow: its milk sales stood at some $8.49 million, and its nursery and greenhouse sales at some $6.06 million — a line strong enough to rank the county fourth in Indiana, the surviving specialty inside the suburban conversion the closing article measures. The full dated series behind this frame — the same counts at 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017, printed as a series — stands in the published census volumes named here as the frame's continuation; the profile in hand is printed whole rather than the series sampled, and the township's own numbers run through the articles below at the records that carry them, Chapman first.
Sources:
- USDA, Census of Agriculture 2022, County Profile for St. Joseph County, Indiana (547 farms; 153,034 acres in farms; average size 280 acres; milk and nursery/greenhouse sales as printed), read whole.