"The United States is losing two acres of mostly prime farmland every minute to development, th
"The United States is losing two acres of mostly prime farmland every minute to development, the fastest such decline in the country's history", a new study has found (see American Farmlands Trust)
Source: Becker, Elizabeth, "2 Acres of Farm Lost to Sprawl Each Minute, New Study Says," The New York Times, 10/4/02