farm size

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 f...

The number of farms in the U.S. in 2016 fell 8,000 to 2.06 million farms according to USDA’s annual look at farms and farmland.   Joe Parsons with NASS said, “That’s really due to the change in the mixture where we’ve had a decrease in lands and farms and also the number of farms but the number of farms decreased slightly more and that’s consistent with the trend that that we’ve seen across time.