This statistic shows the total value of farm real estate in the United States from 2004 to 2023. In 2023, the total value of farmland and buildings in the U.S. came to around 3.3 trillion U.S. dollars.

In 2024, the average value of U.S. farm real estate was 4,170 U.S. dollars per acre. Compared to one decade earlier, the value has increased by almost 40 percent. Generally, the value of U.S. farm real estate has had an upward trend since 1970. U.S. farms The number of farms in the United States has conversely been decreasing each year, reaching about two million farms as of 2022. That year, Texas had the most farms out of any other U.S. state by far, with about 246,000 farms. Missouri and Iowa had the second and third most farms, though neither state exceeded 100,000 farms. Agricultural trade Agricultural products encompass any products from agricultural origin that are meant for human consumption or animal feed. Agricultural products can include livestock products or crops. In 2022, the U.S. exported about 196.4 billion U.S. dollars’ worth of agricultural goods worldwide, increasing from the previous several years. Mexico is a key destination for U.S. agricultural products and imported just over 28 billion dollars’ worth in 2022, more than Europe and Eurasia combined.

Statistics on agriculture in Massachusetts

Texas was by far the leading U.S. state in terms of total number of farms, with about 231 thousand farms by the end of 2024. Iowa was ranked second, among the leading ten states, with 86.7 thousand farms as of 2023. Farms classification In the United States farms are classified based on the farm income and government payments into six sales classes. According to the USDA, about half of all farms in the U.S. were classified in the 1,000 to 9,999 U.S. dollars sales class in 2023. Farming sector in the U.S. The total number of farms in the United States has decreased steadily since 2007. As of 2022, there were about 1.89 million farms in the U.S., down slightly from 1.9 million in the previous year. Contrastingly, the average farm acreage in the United States has increased in the past few years. The number of employees, including both part-time and full-time workers, in this sector was over 965 thousand as of 2019.

This statistic shows the income made by U.S. farms from dairy products from 2010 to 2022, with a forecast for 2023 and 2024. At the end of 2022, farms' cash receipts from dairy products, that is income, came to around 57.3 billion U.S. dollars.

This table contains 664 series, with data for years 2009 - 2015 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (8 items: Canada; Atlantic provinces; Quebec; Ontario; ...) Statistical variables (2 items: Total, all farms; Average per farm) Agriculture balance sheets, revenue and expenses (42 items: Number of farms; Total assets; Current assets; Cash and short term investments, current assets; ...).

From 2000 onwards, the total area of land in U.S. farms has decreased annually, aside from a small increase in 2012. Over the time period displayed, the total farmland area has decreased by over 66 million acres, reaching a total of 876.5 million acres as of 2024. Farming in the U.S. Not only has the land for farming been decreasing in the U.S., but so has the total number of farms. From 2000 to 2021, the number of farms in the U.S. decreased from about 2.17 million farms in 2000 to just under 1.9 million in 2023. Texas has more than double the number of farms compared to other U.S. states, with 231,000 farms in 2023. U.S. agricultural exports The U.S. is known for agriculture production and is the leading exporter of agricultural products worldwide. The total U.S. agricultural exports were valued at over 178 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. Over 4.8 billion dollars’ worth of agricultural exports came from fresh or processed vegetables in 2022.

Longitude and latitude, state, address, name, and zip code of Farmers Markets in the United States

The average size of farms in the United States has seen a steady increase over the last decade. In 2024, the average farm size reached 466 acres, up from 418 acres in 2007. Between 2006 and 2007 there was a sudden drop in average farm size, but in recent years it has recovered and once again reached the same levels as its peak in 2006. Agriculture in the United States In 2023, there were about 1.9 million farms in the United States, down from 2.2 million in 2007. It appears that as average farm size has increased, the number of individual farms in the United States has decreased. Texas is home to the highest number of farms of any U.S. state, with 231,000 farms as of 2023. Major crops in the United States The United States produces a wide variety of crops. Though the production volumes of some major crops, such as wheat, have fluctuated considerably since 2000, the production of vegetables for processing has been on the rise in recent years. Grapes, apples, and oranges are the most produced fruits in the United States, with the majority of grapes being grown in California.

Summary:

There are over 608 million farms around the world but they are not the same. We developed high spatial resolution maps telling where small and large farms were located and which crops were planted for 56 countries. We checked the reliability and have the confidence to use them for the country-level and global studies. Our maps will help more studies to easily measure how agriculture policies, water availabilities, and climate change affect small and large farms respectively.

The code, source data, and the simultaneously farm-size- and crop-specific harvested area datasets, including the GAEZv4 crop map based dataset and SPAM2010 crop map based dataset, are open-access, free, and available, which can be found below. The resulting dataset is available in *.csv and *.nc (netCDF) for each crop and farming system. For each crop, farming system, and farm size, we provide the gridded harvested area in the coordinate Systems of EPSG:4326 - WGS 84. Gridded summaries over crops and farming systems are also available.

How to cite this dataset:

Su, H., Willaarts, B., Luna-Gonzalez, D., Krol, M.S. and Hogeboom, R.J., 2022. Gridded 5 arcmin datasets for simultaneously farm-size-specific and crop-specific harvested areas in 56 countries. Earth System Science Data, 14(9), pp.4397-4418.

Update history:

I am happy to receive any questions, comments, or potential collaboration on further dataset development. Please drop your email to Han Su (h.su@utwente.nl, han_su20@163.com)

Version 1.03: Fix bugs in data format; Netcdf didn't show properly before in QGIS. Data underlying the three versions are the same.

Version 1.02: New data summary, add Netcdf data format

Version 1: Initial dataset for peer-review, CSV format only

Note: please cite the original publications/sources if any data source based on which this dataset was developed is reused for your own study.

SPAM2010:

Yu, Q., You, L., Wood-Sichra, U., Ru, Y., Joglekar, A. K. B., Fritz, S., Xiong, W., Lu, M., Wu, W., and Yang, P.: A cultivated planet in 2010 – Part 2: The global gridded agricultural-production maps, Earth System Science Data, 12, 3545-3572, 10.5194/essd-12-3545-2020, 2020.

GAEZv4:

FAO and IIASA: Global Agro Ecological Zones version 4 (GAEZ v4), FAO UN, Rome, Italy, 2021

The dataset of Ricciardi et al.'s:

Ricciardi, V., Ramankutty, N., Mehrabi, Z., Jarvis, L., and Chookolingo, B.: How much of the world's food do smallholders produce?, Global Food Security, 17, 64-72, 2018.

The global dominant field size dataset:

Lesiv, M., Laso Bayas, J. C., See, L., Duerauer, M., Dahlia, D., Durando, N., Hazarika, R., Kumar Sahariah, P., Vakolyuk, M., Blyshchyk, V., Bilous, A., Perez-Hoyos, A., Gengler, S., Prestele, R., Bilous, S., Akhtar, I. U. H., Singha, K., Choudhury, S. B., Chetri, T., Malek, Z., Bungnamei, K., Saikia, A., Sahariah, D., Narzary, W., Danylo, O., Sturn, T., Karner, M., McCallum, I., Schepaschenko, D., Moltchanova, E., Fraisl, D., Moorthy, I., and Fritz, S.: Estimating the global distribution of field size using crowdsourcing, Glob Chang Biol, 25, 174-186, 10.1111/gcb.14492, 2019.

GLC-Share:

Latham, J., Cumani, R., Rosati, I., and Bloise, M.: Global land cover share (GLC-SHARE) database beta-release version 1.0-2014, FAO, Rome, Italy, 2014.

CAAS-IFPRI cropland extent map:

Lu, M., Wu, W., You, L., See, L., Fritz, S., Yu, Q., Wei, Y., Chen, D., Yang, P., and Xue, B.: A cultivated planet in 2010 – Part 1: The global synergy cropland map, Earth System Science Data, 12, 1913-1928, 10.5194/essd-12-1913-2020, 2020.

Census of Agriculture, 1991 to date. Characteristics of farm operators: sex, age and paid non-farm work.

This dataset includes number of projects, tax credit amount and loan amount for Beginning Farmer Tax Credit Program and Loan Program in FY17 and FY18 break down by County.

This data product presents the latest household income forecast and estimates for U.S. family farms.

USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) compares prices paid by consumers for food with prices received by farmers for corresponding commodities. This data set reports these comparisons for a variety of foods sold through retail food stores such as supermarkets and super centers. Comparisons are made for individual foods and groupings of individual foods-market baskets-that represent what a typical U.S. household buys at retail in a year. The retail costs of these baskets are compared with the money received by farmers for a corresponding basket of agricultural commodities.

Structure of the farming industry including crop areas, yields and production, livestock populations, detailed labour force figures and diversification activity for England and the United Kingdom. Selected results for England are produced at a regional and county level as well as other local geographies. This data is available from the June Survey of Agriculture page at: https://data.gov.uk/dataset/june_survey_of_agriculture_and_horticulture_england

Source agency: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Designation: National Statistics Language: English

If you require the datasets in a more accessible format, please contact farming-statistics@defra.gsi.gov.uk