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.

The timeline shows the crop value of the dry pulse and vegetable industry in the United States from 2014 to 2023, by type. In 2023, the crop value of dry beans, peas and lentils in the U.S. amounted to approximately 1.67 billion U.S. dollars.

Quick Stats is the National Agricultural Statistics Service's (NASS) online, self-service tool to access complete results from the 1997, 2002, 2007, and 2012 Censuses of Agriculture as well as the best source of NASS survey published estimates. The census collects data on all commodities produced on U.S. farms and ranches, as well as detailed information on expenses, income, and operator characteristics. The surveys that NASS conducts collect information on virtually every facet of U.S. agricultural production.

This statistic shows the total amount of lamb and mutton produced in the United States from 2000 to 2024. In 2001, around 228 million pounds of lamb and mutton were produced. Lamb and mutton production has generally decreased since then and is forecast to be around 129 million pounds in 2024.

This statistic presents the value added of the agriculture sector in the United States from 2000 to 2023 and provides a forecast for 2024 (in billion U.S. dollars). In 2023, the net value added of the United States agricultural sector amounted to approximately 231 billion U.S. dollars based on current U.S. dollar values.

Increased productivity is the main contributor to growth in U.S. agriculture. This data set provides estimates of productivity growth in the U.S. farm sector for the 1948-2011 period, and estimates of the growth and relative levels of productivity across the States for the period 1960-2004.

The Quick Stats Database is the most comprehensive tool for accessing agricultural data published by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). It allows you to customize your query by commodity, location, or time period. You can then visualize the data on a map, manipulate and export the results as an output file compatible for updating databases and spreadsheets, or save a link for future use. Quick Stats contains official published aggregate estimates related to U.S. agricultural production. County level data are also available via Quick Stats. The data include the total crops and cropping practices for each county, and breakouts for irrigated and non-irrigated practices for many crops, for selected States. The database allows custom extracts based on commodity, year, and selected counties within a State, or all counties in one or more States. The county data includes totals for the Agricultural Statistics Districts (county groupings) and the State. The download data files contain planted and harvested area, yield per acre and production. NASS develops these estimates from data collected through:

hundreds of sample surveys conducted each year covering virtually every aspect of U.S. agriculture

the Census of Agriculture conducted every five years providing state- and county-level aggregates Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: Quick Stats database. File Name: Web Page, url: https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/ Dynamic drill-down filtered search by Commodity, Location, and Date range, beginning with Census or Survey data. Filter lists are refreshed based upon user choice allowing the user to fine-tune the search.

The total beef production in the United States is estimated to be 26.96 billion pounds in 2023, down from 28.29 billion pounds in the previous year. Over the last two decades, the total U.S. beef production has fluctuated slightly but remained stable overall.

Beef retail in the United States Beef has the highest retail sales of any fresh meat in the United States, as of 2021. In that year, over 30 billion U.S. dollars worth of fresh beef were sold in the United States. The retail price for 100 percent ground beef in the United States was 4.8 U.S. dollars per pound in 2022, up from 3.95 U.S. dollars in 2020. Beef brisket, on the other hand, was priced on average around 8.84 U.S. dollars per pound in major grocery retailers.

U.S. beef consumption The United States consumes more beef than any other country in the world. Consumption of beef amounted to around 59 pounds per capita on an annual basis. This was projected to decrease slowly until 2032.

United States US: Production Index: 2014-2016: Crop data was reported at 92.960 2014-2016=100 in 2022. This records a decrease from the previous number of 101.000 2014-2016=100 for 2021. United States US: Production Index: 2014-2016: Crop data is updated yearly, averaging 67.750 2014-2016=100 from Dec 1961 (Median) to 2022, with 62 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 106.710 2014-2016=100 in 2016 and a record low of 36.930 2014-2016=100 in 1961. United States US: Production Index: 2014-2016: Crop data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.World Bank.WDI: Agricultural Production Index. Crop production index shows agricultural production for each year relative to the base period 2014-2016. It includes all crops except fodder crops. Regional and income group aggregates for the FAO's production indexes are calculated from the underlying values in international dollars, normalized to the base period 2014-2016.;Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.;Weighted average;

United States Crop Production: Hay data was reported at 131,455.000 Ton th in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 134,781.000 Ton th for 2016. United States Crop Production: Hay data is updated yearly, averaging 143,105.000 Ton th from Dec 1963 (Median) to 2017, with 55 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 159,077.000 Ton th in 1999 and a record low of 116,332.000 Ton th in 1964. United States Crop Production: Hay data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Agricultural Statistics Service. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.B068: Agriculture Crop Production.

Graph and download economic data for Index of Crop Production, All Crops Including Pasture for United States (A01283USA343NNBR) from 1910 to 1950 about crop, production, indexes, and USA.

In the United States there were about 5.03 million head of sheep and lambs as of 2024. This figure has been dropping steadily over the last several years. To put this in perspective; in 2001, there were nearly seven million sheep and lambs in the United States. Sheep and lambs in the United States Sheep are wonderful livestock in that they serve multiple purposes; they produce wool and milk, they are an easy and natural way to clear away shrubbery and keep grass short as a fire safety measure, and they can be slaughtered for their meat. The value of sheep varies considerably from year to year, but in 2019 an average head of sheep in the United States was valued at 203 U.S. dollars, down from 214 U.S. dollars in 2015. U.S. wool production Wool has many benefits over other varieties of textile material. In addition to being all-natural and biodegradable, it has thermal insulation properties and gives off very little static electricity. In 2019, the United States produced some 45.36 million U.S. dollars worth of shorn wool. The number of sheep and lambs shorn in the United States has seen a sharp decline in the last two decades.

Context

Living in the Midwest United States, corn and soybeans are the staple crops that always fascinated me.

Content

The data contain annual numbers for acres planted, acres harvested, and the value of the crop production. Some data is not reported, which makes it even more fun to work with!

Acknowledgements

The data was culled from the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) offers Quick Stats, an on-line database containing official published aggregate estimates related to U.S. agricultural production. NASS develops these estimates from data collected through:

1. hundreds of sample surveys conducted each year covering virtually every aspect of U.S. agriculture
2. the Census of Agriculture conducted every five years providing state- and county-level aggregates

Inspiration

Using this relatively small dataset, I am trying to include other sources (e.g. weather/climate data) to provide explanation for both productive and unproductive crop years.

The Census of Agriculture, produced by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), provides a complete count of America's farms, ranches and the people who grow our food. The census is conducted every five years, most recently in 2022, and provides an in-depth look at the agricultural industry. This layer was produced from data obtained from the USDA National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) Large Datasets download page. The data were transformed and prepared for publishing using the Pivot Table geoprocessing tool in ArcGIS Pro and joined to county boundaries. The county boundaries are 2022 vintage and come from Living Atlas ACS 2022 feature layers.Dataset SummaryPhenomenon Mapped: Grain productionGeographic Extent: 48 contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto RicoProjection: Web Mercator Auxiliary SphereSource: USDA National Agricultural Statistics ServiceUpdate Frequency: 5 yearsData Vintage: 2022Publication Date: April 2024AttributesNote that some values are suppressed as "Withheld to avoid disclosing data for individual operations", "Not applicable", or "Less than half the rounding unit". These have been coded in the data as -999, -888, and -777 respectively. You should account for these values when symbolizing or doing any calculations.Commodities included in this layer:Grain - Operations with SalesGrain - Sales, Measured in US Dollars ($)Grain, Other - Operations with SalesGrain, Other - Sales, Measured in US Dollars ($) Geography NoteIn Alaska, one or more county-equivalent entities (borough, census area, city, municipality) are included in an agriculture census area.What can you do with this layer?This layer is designed for data visualization. Identify features by clicking on the map to reveal the pre-configured pop-up. You may change the field(s) being symbolized. When symbolizing other fields, you will need to update the popup accordingly. Simple summary statistics are supported by this data.Questions?Please leave a comment below if you have a question about this layer, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Statistics on agriculture in Massachusetts

This dataset contains estimates of proportional area of 18 major crops for each county in the United States at roughly decadal time steps between 1840 and 2017, and was used for analyses of historical changes in crop area, diversity, and distribution published in:Crossley, MS, KD Burke, SD Schoville, VC Radeloff. (2020). Recent collapse of crop belts and declining diversity of US agriculture since 1840. Global Change Biology (in press).The original data used to curate this dataset was derived by Haines et al. (ICPSR 35206) from USDA Agricultural Census archives (https://www.nass.usda.gov/AgCensus/). This dataset builds upon previous work in that crop values are georeferenced and rectified to match 2012 county boundaries, and several inconsistencies in the tabular-formatted data have been smoothed-over. In particular, smoothing included conversion of values of production (e.g. bushels, lbs, typical of 1840-1880 censuses) into values of area (using USDA NASS yield data), imputation of missing values for certain crop x county x year combinations, and correcting values for counties whose crop totals exceeded the possible land area.Please contact the PI, Mike Crossley, with any questions or requests: mcrossley3@gmail.com

This coverage contains estimates of land in agricultural production in counties in the conterminous United States as reported in the 1987 Census of Agriculture (U.S. Department of Commerce, 1989a). Land in agriculture data are reported as either a number (for example, number of Farms), acres, or as a percentage of county area. Land in agriculture estimates were generated from surveys of all farms where $1,000 or more of agricultural products were sold, or normally would have been sold, during the census year. Most of the attributes summarized represent 1987 data, but some information for the 1982 Census of Agriculture also was included. The polygons representing county boundaries in the conterminous United States, as well as lakes, estuaries, and other nonland-area features were derived from the Digital Line Graph (DLG) files representing the 1:2,000,000-scale map in the National Atlas of the United States (1970). Agricultural land Census of Agriculture Counties United States

The Census of Agriculture, produced by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA), provides a complete count of America's farms, ranches and the people who grow our food. The census is conducted every five years, most recently in 2017, and provides an in-depth look at the agricultural industry.This layer summarizes payments made to producers by the Federal government from the 2017 Census of Agriculture at the county level. This layer was produced from data downloaded using the USDA's QuickStats Application. The data was transformed using the Pivot Table tool in ArcGIS Pro and joined to the county boundary file provided by the USDA. The layer was published as feature layer in ArcGIS Online.Dataset SummaryPhenomenon Mapped: Payments made to producers by the Federal government Coordinate System: Web Mercator Auxiliary SphereExtent: United States including Hawaii and AlaskaVisible Scale: All ScalesSource: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service QuickStats ApplicationPublication Date: 2017AttributesThis layer provides values for the following attributes. Note that some values are not disclosed (coded as -1 in the layer) to protect the privacy of producers in areas with limited production.Federal Payments - Operations with ReceiptsFederal Payments - Receipts in US DollarsFederal Payments - Receipts in US Dollars per OperationFederal Payments not Including Conservation and Wetland Programs - Operations with ReceiptsFederal Payments not Including Conservation and Wetland Programs - Receipts in US DollarsFederal Payments not Including Conservation and Wetland Programs - Receipts in US Dollars per OperationFederal Payments for Conservation and Wetland Programs - Operations with ReceiptsFederal Payments for Conservation and Wetland Programs - Receipts in US DollarsFederal Payments for Conservation and Wetland Programs - Receipts in US Dollars per OperationConservation and wetland programs include:Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)Farmable Wetlands Program (FWP)Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP)Other programs with payments to producers include:2014 Agricultural Act (Farm Bill)Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC)Price Loss Coverage (PLC)Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)Loan Deficiency PaymentsDisaster Assistance ProgramsState and local government agricultural program payments and Federal crop insurance payments are not included.Additionally, attributes of State Name, State Code, County Name and County Code are included to facilitate cartography and use with other layers.What can you do with this layer?This layer can be used throughout the ArcGIS system. Feature layers can be used just like any other vector layer. You can use feature layers as an input to geoprocessing tools in ArcGIS Pro or in Analysis in ArcGIS Online. Combine the layer with others in a map and set custom symbology or create a pop-up tailored for your users. For the details of working with feature layers the help documentation for ArcGIS Pro or the help documentation for ArcGIS Online are great places to start. The ArcGIS Blog is a great source of ideas for things you can do with feature layers. This layer is part of ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World that provides an easy way to find and explore many other beautiful and authoritative layers, maps, and applications on hundreds of topics.

The Census of Agriculture, produced by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA), provides a complete count of America's farms, ranches and the people who grow our food. The census is conducted every five years, most recently in 2017, and provides an in-depth look at the agricultural industry.This layer summarizes wheat production from the 2017 Census of Agriculture at the county level.This layer was produced from data downloaded using the USDA's QuickStats Application. The data was transformed using the Pivot Table tool in ArcGIS Pro and joined to the county boundary file provided by the USDA. The layer was published as feature layer in ArcGIS Online. Dataset SummaryPhenomenon Mapped: 2017 Wheat ProductionCoordinate System: Web Mercator Auxiliary SphereExtent: 48 Contiguous United StatesVisible Scale: All ScalesSource: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service QuickStats ApplicationPublication Date: 2017AttributesThis layer provides values for the following attributes. Note that some values are not disclosed (coded as -1 in the layer) to protect the privacy of producers in areas with limited production.Area Harvested in AcresOperations with Area HarvestedOperations with SalesProduction in BushelsSales in US DollarsIrrigated Area Harvested in AcresOperations with Irrigated Area HarvestedAdditionally attributes of State Name, State Code, County Name and County Code are included to facilitate cartography and use with other layers.Many other ready-to-use layers derived from the Census of Agriculture can be found in the Living Atlas Agriculture of the USA group.What can you do with this layer?This layer can be used throughout the ArcGIS system. Feature layers can be used just like any other vector layer. You can use feature layers as an input to geoprocessing tools in ArcGIS Pro or in Analysis in ArcGIS Online. Combine the layer with others in a map and set custom symbology or create a pop-up tailored for your users.For the details of working with feature layers the help documentation for ArcGIS Pro or the help documentation for ArcGIS Online are great places to start. The ArcGIS Blog is a great source of ideas for things you can do with feature layers.This layer is part of ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World that provides an easy way to find and explore many other beautiful and authoritative layers, maps, and applications on hundreds of topics.

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.