Texas was by far the leading U.S. state in terms of total number of farms, with about 231 thousand farms by the end of 2023. Missouri was ranked second, among the leading ten states, with 87.6 thousand farms as of 2023.
Farms classification
In the United States farms are classified based on the farm income and government payments into six sales classes. According to the USDA, about half of all farms in the U.S. were classified in the 1,000 to 9,999 U.S. dollars sales class in 2023.
Farming sector in the U.S.
The total number of farms in the United States has decreased steadily since 2007. As of 2022, there were about 1.89 million farms in the U.S., down slightly from 1.9 million in the previous year. Contrastingly, the average farm acreage in the United States has increased in the past few years. The number of employees, including both part-time and full-time workers, in this sector was over 965 thousand as of 2019.
