Biggest U.S. Farms Obtaining More Land

USDA’s annual Farms and Land in Farms Report shows the country’s largest farms with sales of $1 million or more operate nearly 26% of all American farmlands.  The agency also says there were 2.003 million farms in the nation during 2022, a drop of 0.5 percentage points from 2012.  Around 88,660 farms, or 3.9% of the total, had sales of at least $1 million.  Ten years ago, 3% of farms made that category.

The average size of the largest farms, by sales, was 2,927 acres or 4.6 square miles in 2022.  In 2012, farms with $1 million in sales were an average of 2,481 acres in size.  USDA said the average farm size for 2022 was 446 acres, up from 445 acres in 2021.  The size of farms in the $1 million or more sales class increased, meanwhile farms in every other sales class either decreased or remained the same size.

If you have a story idea for the PNW Ag Network, call (509) 547-9791, or e-mail glenn.vaagen@townsquaremedia.com