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AUDIT ROW #312 · USDA CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE, TABLE 1 AND COUNTY PROFILES, FIRST-HAND
The checklist wants the farming story dated and counted, and the count exists at county frame: the Census of Agriculture's Table 1 for St. Joseph County, read first-hand for three censuses. 2012: 691 farms; 151,975 acres of land in farms; average farm 220 acres, median 47; irrigation on 89 farms covering 27,580 acres; corn for grain on 276 farms, 77,076 acres, 10,668,630 bushels; wheat on 50 farms, 2,853 acres, 186,557 bushels; milk cows on 25 farms, 1,726 head [USDA Census of Agriculture 2012, Indiana volume, Table 1, County Summary Highlights — the St.2017: 629 farms; 149,981 acres; average 238 acres; 28,116 acres irrigated [USDA 2017 county profile]. 2022: 547 farms; 153,034 acres; average 280 acres; 24,052 acres irrigated [USDA 2022 county profile]. The series tells one story in three numbers: the county lost a fifth of its farms in a decade (691 to 547) while its farmland held roughly level and its average farm grew by more than a quarter — consolidation, not abandonment, is the county frame inside which Lincoln Township's own farm course runs. The earlier points of the same series (1997, 2002, 2007) were not pulled and are the item's named residue — the same Table 1 series in the earlier Indiana volumes, with USDA QuickStats as the machine route — so the dated run in print is 2012–2022, stated as such.
Principal sources: USDA Census of Agriculture — 2012, Indiana, Table 1 (County Summary Highlights), St.