Did you know that 15% of New York’s farms are in the Hudson Valley? Find out more fun facts about our region’s farms below:
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Farm fact #1: 15% of New York State’s farms (5,326) are in the Hudson Valley
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Farm fact #2: 17% of the region is farmland — equivalent to 1,325 square miles
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Farm fact #3: Farmers in the Valley have collectively invested over $4 billion in farming, in the form of land, buildings, equipment and machinery
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Farm fact #4: 42% of Hudson Valley farms are smaller than 50 acres
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Farm fact #5: 37% of the region’s 8,803 farm operators are women (3,268) — an 11% increase from 2002
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Farm fact #6: Farms contribute to tax revenues: For every $1 paid in taxes, farms take 29 cents in services. Residential properties take $1.29 for every dollar paid
Source: Footnote data is taken from “The State of Agriculture in the Hudson Valley,” published by Glynwood in 2010. Many of the statistics were obtained from the 2007 U.S. Census of Agriculture.
