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15% of farms are using their service. That is incredible.

Indeed. But that's their own claim, not supported by any cited independent source.

They may be at 15% of some undefined subset of farms (e.g. wheat, corn, or soybean farms larger than n acres) or something like that.

You're correct, it's 15% of row crop farms (corn, soy, wheat, etc).

How do you quantify that (is there really an accurate count of how many of those farms exist?)

Good point. Also, "15% of the total number of farms in the US" is not the same as "15% of the total farmed area of the US", since farms can obviously have widely varying acreage.

I am somewhat skeptical of that number, but users seem to have good things to say about it: http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=423941&...

(Now you know where the farmer message board is...)

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