I think you should check your percentages. I think that only 1% of the population is involved in agriculture. And most of the crops are produced by a small fraction of that number. I got this off the web.
This article in the New York Times tells us:
According to the Agriculture Department, nonfarm jobs now account for more than 90 percent of farm households' incomes.
The EPA article also mentions that 64.9% of farms (or around 1.3 million) are Residential/Lifestyle, Retirement or Farming Sales < $100,000. According to the USDA these farms only account for 10% of the total value of all agricultural production. The vast majority of these type of farmers do not report farming as their major occupation. Only 35% of the 2.1 million farms (or around 735,000) are large farms that have workers that consider their occupation to be farming. This explains how the number of farmers can be lower than the total number of reported farms.
The prison population of 2.1 million is larger than the EPA's number of 960,000 persons claiming farming as their principal occupation, the BLS's number of nearly 1.3 million farmers, ranchers, and agricultural managers, or the EPA's number of 1.9 primary and secondary occupation farmers.
Actually, at best 1.9 million farmers, including "lifestyle" ( hobby farmers? ) compared to a population of 310 million leaves a percentage of 6 tenths of 1 percent.
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