As agriculture has evolved in Mississippi, the state is losing its ‘middle class’ of farmers  ...Middle East

In the early 1930s, Mississippi had over 300,000 farmers, the most ever recorded for the state in federal census records. The last survey, from 2017, listed just around 55,000.   In the 1930s, the average farm size was around 50 acres. Today, it’s over 300 acres. For decades from the early to mid 20th Century, Black farmers outnumbered white farmers in the state. Today, 86% of Mississippi’s farmers are white.  !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data["datawrapper-height"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var t in a.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;r While agriculture is still the top employer in the state, who

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