[Windflier]

There was probably census data used for a ball-park count of rural residents, with an arbitrary figure per acreage.

I thought the same thing when I read that Obama had gotten the number of black farmers inflated by 50,000.

If I'm tracking the facts of this story correctly, the initial complaint only involved 400 farmers, which was then somehow inflated to 86,000 farmers.

That comes to 1,720 black farmers for every state in the union. Riiiiiiiight......

[sodpoodle]

Some of those Illinois farmers be ploughing sod on Chicago golf courses.’)