“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.”
What PolitiFact found
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.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 1 November 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 November 2023, 6 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/11/01/remarks-by-president…
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