Biggest US Farms Grew Larger in 2022, Says USDA Report

Photo: C.J. Miller / Michigan Ag Today.

The largest farms in the U.S. that had sales of $1 million or more operate nearly 26 percent of U.S. farmlands according to the USDA’s annual Farms and Land in Farms Report.

The size of farms in the $1 million or more sales class increased. Farms in every other sales class either decreased or remained the same size. Around 88,660 farms, or 3.9 percent of the total, had sales of at least $1 million. Ten years ago, three percent 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 says the average farm size for 2022 was 446 acres, up from 445 acres in 2021.

The agency also says there were 2.003 million farms in the nation during 2022, a drop of 0.5 percentage points from 2012.

Click HERE for the USDA’s full report.

Source: NAFB News Service.

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