It is sometimes said that the decline in total net farm income is not so bad because more than 2 and 1/2 million farmers have left the land since World War II. But farm income per person, or per farm family is over 50% below income in the rest of the country— just as far as it was twenty years ago. Two thirds of the nation’s farms return less than $4,000 a year to their owners and operators, for all their sweat and sacrifice and investment.