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AUDIT ROW #316 · LAND IN FARMS, 2012–2022 · THE TOWNSHIP'S OWN COURSE STANDS BANKED
Measured at the frame the census gives, the conversion story of the last decade is not farmland vanishing: land in farms in St. Joseph County went from 151,975 acres (2012) to 153,034 (2022) — level — while the farm count fell by a fifth. That is the finding, and it disciplines the leg: at county scale the pressure of the decade shows as farms consolidating into larger units, not as the county's farm acreage being eaten — whatever conversion nibbles at Lincoln Township's edges (and the township's own ground course stands in Farms & Agriculture and The Land) is below the county series' resolution, and this article does not borrow the series to claim a township figure it cannot give. The row closes mixed — conversion measured at the frame that exists, the township figure and the nursery line open under their settlers.
Principal sources: USDA Census of Agriculture 2012/2017/2022, St. Joseph County (the series, article 1 above); Farms & Agriculture and The Land (the township's ground course), pointed to; settler named — the census series' county floriculture lines (the nursery limb).