“Over the past four decades, we’ve lost over 400,000 farms in America (and) over 140 million acres of farmland. And that’s an area roughly equal to the size of Minnesota, North and South Dakota combined.”
PolitiFact says: Biden is right about the decline in the number of U.S. farms and is close on the acreage lost, which is roughly equal to the land area of the three states he cited. The reason: Higher productivity.