Farms and Land in Farms Highlights
The
number of farms in the United States for 2019 is estimated at
2,023,400, down 5,800 farms from 2018. Total land in farms, at
897,400,000 acres, decreased 2,100,000 acres from 2018. The average farm
size for 2019 is 444 acres, up 1 acre from the previous year.
Farm
numbers and land in farms are differentiated by six economic sales
classes. Farms and ranches are classified into these six sales classes
by summing the sales of agricultural products and government program
payments. Sales class breaks occur at $10,000, $100,000, $250,000,
$500,000, and $1,000,000. Producers were asked during the 2019 mid-year
surveys to report the value of sales based on production during the 2018
calendar year.
Point Farms are farms that did not have the
required minimum $1,000 in sales for the year to qualify as a farm, but
had sufficient crops and livestock to normally have sales of $1,000 or
more. Point Farms are assigned a sales class based on the sum of the
agricultural point (dollar) values assigned to the quantity of
commodities produced but not sold. The 2017 Census of Agriculture showed
that 471,593 farms or 23.1 percent of the 2,042,220 farms were Point
Farms. These Point Farms operated 59,166,158 acres or 6.6 percent of the
900,217,576 acres of farmland.
Number of farms declined by 5,800
from 2018. The number of farms in the $100,000 - $249,999 and $250,000
-$499,999 sales classes increased while all other sales classes
declined. In 2019, 51.1 percent of all farms had less than $10,000 in
sales and 81.5 percent of all farms had less than $100,000 in sales. In
2019, 7.4 percent of all farms had sales of $500,000 or more.
Land
in farms, at 897,400,000 acres, is down 2,100,000 acres from 2018. The
biggest change for 2019 is that producers in Sales Class $100,000 -
$249,999 operated 1,170,000 fewer acres than in 2018. In 2019, 30.2
percent of all farmland was operated by farms with less than $100,000 in
sales, while 40.8 percent of all farmland was operated by farms with
sales of $500,000 or more.
The average farm size continued to
increase in 2019 as the number of farms declined. The overall average
size increased by 1 acre to 444 acres per farm. Average farm size
decreased in the $100,000-$249,999 and $250,000 - $499,999 sales classes
and increased or remained unchanged in all others.
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